The Fourth Meeting of the Parties took note with appreciation the report on "Meeting the needs of Article 5 Parties for controlled substances during the grace and phase-out periods", prepared by the Executive Committee.
The Parties requested the Executive Committee to update its report and submit it to the Seventh Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in 1995, through the Secretariat, before 31 December 1994. They urged other Parties to take note of the Executive Committee's report and to take the necessary steps, consistent with the provisions of the Protocol, to promote an adequate supply of controlled substances in order to meet the needs of the Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the Protocol.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/4/15 Decision IV/29).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/8/25, and Add.1).
The Fifteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee adopted the revised document on "Meeting the needs of Article 5 Parties for controlled substances during the grace and phase-out periods", and authorized the Secretariat to transmit it through the Ozone Secretariat to the Seventh Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/15/47, para. 163).
The Fifth Meeting of the Parties requested Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the Protocol which require controlled substances from another Party to furnish, with effect from 1 January 1995, to the Government of the supplying Party a letter specifying the volume of the substances required and stating that the substances are required for the purposes of meeting their basic domestic needs; and also requested Parties supplying the controlled substances to provide annually to the Ozone Secretariat a summary of the requests received from Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the Protocol and to indicate therein whether such Parties receiving the substances have affirmed that the supply is to meet their basic domestic needs.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/5/12 Decision V/25).