The Fourth Meeting of the Parties approved, for the purposes of paragraph 5 of Article 1 of the Protocol, the destruction technologies listed in Annex VII.4 which are operated in accordance with the suggested minimum standards (Annex VII to the report of the Fourth Meeting of the Parties) unless similar standards currently exist domestically (this also applies to pilot-scale as well as demonstration-scale destruction technologies).
The Parties also decided to call on each Party that operates, or plans to operate, facilities for the destruction of ozone-depleting substances:
(a) To ensure that its destruction facilities are operated in accordance with the Code of Good Housekeeping Procedures set out in section 5.5 of the report of the Ad Hoc Technical Advisory Committee on Destruction Technologies, unless similar procedures currently exist domestically; and
(b) For the purposes of paragraph 5 of Article 1 of the Protocol, to provide each year, in its report under Article 7 of the Protocol, statistical data on the actual quantities of ozone-depleting substances it has destroyed, calculated on the basis of the destruction efficiency of the facility employed.
The Parties decided to facilitate access and transfer of approved destruction technologies in accordance with Article 10 of the Protocol, together with provision for financial support under Article 10 of the Protocol for Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/4/15 Decision IV/11 (paras. 3, 7).