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The Seventeenth Meeting of the
Parties decided:
1. to
approve the terms of reference for a study on the feasibility of developing an
international system of monitoring the transboundary movement of controlled
ozone-depleting substances between Parties, as presented in Annex VI.3 to the
present report, and to request the Ozone Secretariat to undertake such a study,
to initiate the necessary tenders and to present the results to the Eighteenth
Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in 2006;
2. to
invite the Ozone Secretariat to consult with other conventions or organizations
who might benefit from the outcome of that study to contribute towards its
work;
3. to
urge all Parties, including regional economic integration organizations, to
implement fully their obligations under Article 4B of the Montreal Protocol, in
particular, the licensing systems for the control of imports, exports,
re-exports (re-exports mean exports of previously imported substances) and, if
technically and administratively feasible, transit of all controlled
ozone-depleting substances, including mixtures containing them, regardless of
whether the Party concerned is or is not recognized as the producer and/or
importer, exporter or re-exporter of the particular substance or group of
substances;
4. to
request the Ozone Secretariat to revise the reporting format resulting from
decision VII/9 to cover exports (including re-exports) of all controlled
ozone-depleting substances, including mixtures containing them, and to urge the
Parties to implement the revised reporting format expeditiously. The Ozone
Secretariat is also requested to report back aggregated information related to
the controlled substance in question received from the exporting/re-exporting
Party to the importing Party concerned;
5. to
invite Parties to submit information to the Ozone Secretariat by 30 June 2006
on any existing systems for exchanging information on import and export
licenses between importing and exporting Parties;
6. to
consider additional control measures with regard to the use of controlled ozone
depleting substances in particular sectors or in particular applications, as
this approach may effectively diminish illegal trade activities;
7. to
encourage further work on the Green Customs initiative of the United Nations
Environment Programme in combating illegal trade in controlled ozone depleting
substances as well as further networking and twinning activities in the
framework of regional networks aimed at the exchange of information and
experience on both licit and illicit trade in controlled ozone depleting
substances between the Parties, including enforcement agencies;
8. to
request the Executive Committee to consider at its forty-eighth meeting the
recommendations contained in the report of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral
Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on the Evaluation of
Customs Officers Training and Licensing System Projects to the twenty-fifth
meeting of the Open-ended Working Group”, in particular where they relate to
customs training and other elements of capacity building that are needed in
combating illegal trade in controlled ozone-depleting substances;
9. to approve a maximum
amount of $200,000 from the Trust Fund of the Vienna Convention as a one-time
measure to facilitate the feasibility study on developing a system for
monitoring the transboundary movement of controlled ozone-depleting substances
between the Parties.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.17/11,
Decision XVII/16).
The Forty-eighth Meeting of the
Executive Committee decided:
(a) to
take note of the recommendations contained in the report of the Executive
Committee on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system
projects to the Twenty fifth Meeting of the Open ended Working Group (follow up
to decision XVII/16, paragraph 8, of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties to
the Montreal Protocol), as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/13;
(b) to
submit the recommendations listed under paragraph 8(b) in document
UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/13, as amended to include the phrase “where feasible”
before the words “in cooperation with other relevant government
ministries/agencies:” to the Ozone Secretariat in the context of the ongoing
studies and discussions on how best to deal with illegal trade in ODS;
(c) to
request implementing agencies and bilateral agencies to prepare and implement
national phase-out plans and terminal phase-out management plans in a manner
that would ensure, where feasible, implementation of the recommendations listed
under paragraph 8(b), and to implement the recommendations listed under
paragraph 8(c) in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/13; and
(d) to request UNEP to implement the
recommendations under paragraph 8(d) in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/13.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/45,
Decision 48/11, para. 81).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/13).
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