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Any Party that is a developing country and whose annual calculated level of consumption of the controlled substances in Annex A is less than 0.3 kilograms per capita on the date of the entry into force of the Protocol for it, or any time thereafter until 1 January 1999, shall, in order to meet its basic domestic needs, be entitled to delay for ten years its compliance with the control measures set out in Articles 2A to 2E, provided that any further amendments to the adjustments or Amendment adopted at the Second meeting of the Parties in London, 29 June 1990, shall apply to the Parties operating under this paragraph after the review provided for in paragraph 8 of this Article has taken place and shall be based on the conclusions of that review.

(The 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer as adjusted and amended by the second Meeting of the Parties (London) and by the fourth Meeting of the Parties (Copenhagen) and further adjusted by the Seventh Meeting of the Parties (Vienna), Article 5, para. 1)).


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