The Sixth Meeting of the Parties decided to adopt the following principles regarding treatment of classified and reclassified developing country Parties:
(a) the Secretariat should continue to classify, in absence of complete data, developing countries temporarily as operating or not operating under Article 5 based on the information available to the Secretariat, subject to the conditions that:
(i) the Secretariat encourages these Parties to approach the Executive Committee and the Implementation Committee for assistance in establishing accurate data;
(ii) a country may only be classified temporarily as operating under Article 5 for a period of two years applicable from the time of adoption of the present decision. After this period, Article 5 status can no longer be extended without data reporting as required by the Protocol, unless the country has sought the assistance of the Executive Committee and the Implementation Committee. In this case, the extension period shall not exceed two years;
(iii) a developing country temporarily classified as operating under Article 5 would lose the status if it does not report base-year data as required by the Protocol within one year of the approval of its country programme and its institutional strengthening by the Executive Committee, unless otherwise decided by a Meeting of the Parties; and
(b) Parties may be allowed to correct the data submitted by them in the interest of accuracy for a given year but no change of classification will be permitted for that year pertaining to which the data has been corrected. Any such corrections should be accompanied by an explanatory note to facilitate the work of the Implementation Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/6/7 Decision VI/5 (paras. a, c).
The Fifth Meeting of the Parties noted that Cyprus, Kuwait, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates are not classified as Parties operating under Article 5 based on their annual per capita consumption of controlled substances, which is more than 0.3 kilograms. The classification will be appropriately revised in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the Protocol, on receipt of further data from them if it warrants reclassification. The Meeting also reclassified Malta and Bahrain as Parties operating under Article 5 from the year 1991, based on the data furnished by those Parties showing their annual per capital consumption of controlled substances to be less than 0.3 kilograms.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/5/12 Decision V/4 (paras. 1, 2).
The Eighth Meeting of the Parties decided to accept the application of Georgia to be listed as a developing country for the purposes of the Montreal Protocol, taking into account that Georgia is classified as a developing country by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and as a net recipient country by the United Nations Development Programme.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.8/12, Decision VIII/29).
The Ninth Meeting of the Parties decided to accept the application of the Republic of Moldova to be listed as a developing country for the purposes of the Montreal Protocol, taking into account that the Republic of Moldova is classified as a developing country by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and as a net recipient country by the United Nations Development Programme.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.9/12, Decision IX/26).
The Ninth Meeting of the Parties, noting that South Africa has undertaken not to request financial assistance from the Multilateral Fund for fulfilling commitments undertaken by developed countries prior to the Ninth Meeting of the Parties, decided to accept the classification of South Africa as a developing country for the purposes of the Montreal Protocol.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.9/12, Decision IX/27).
The Ninth Meeting of the Parties decided to reclassify Brunei Darussalam as a Party operating under paragraph 1 of the Article 5 effective 1 January 1995 on the basis of its data submitted for 1995.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.9/12, Decision IX/33, para. 4).
The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat to send a letter to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, countries originally classified as non-Article 5, reminding them of Decision VI/5(e) adopted by the Contracting Parties at their Sixth Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/16, para. 37).
The Fourteenth Meeting of the Parties decided to accept the application of Armenia to be listed as a developing country operating under Article 5 of the Montreal Protocol, taking into account its difficult economic situation, its classification as a developing country by the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme and its low per capita consumption of ozone-depleting substances, on the understanding that the process for ratification of the London Amendment in Armenia must be completed before any assistance from the Multilateral Fund can be rendered to the Party.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.14/9, Decision XIV/2).
The Fifteenth Meeting of the Parties decided to request the Council of the Global Environment Facility to consider, on an exceptional basis, project proposals from South Africa on phasing out the controlled substance in Annex E for funding as per the conditions and eligibility criteria applicable to all countries eligible for such assistance under the Facility.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.15/9, Decision XV/49).