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The
Fifteenth Meeting of the Parties decided:
1. to note that the following Article 5 Parties
have reported annual data for the controlled substance in Annex E for 2002
which are above their requirement for a freeze in consumption: Barbados, Egypt,
Paraguay, Philippines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Thailand. In the absence of
further clarification, those Parties are presumed to be in non-compliance with
the control measures under the Protocol;
2. to request those Parties to submit to the
Implementation Committee as a matter of urgency, for consideration at its next
meeting, an explanation for their excess consumption, together with plans of
action with time-specific benchmarks to ensure a prompt return to compliance.
Those Parties may wish to consider including in their plans of action the
establishment of import quotas to freeze imports at baseline levels and support
the phase-out schedule, and policy and regulatory instruments that will ensure
progress in achieving the phase-out;
3. to monitor closely the progress of those
Parties with regard to the phase-out of methyl bromide. To the degree that
those Parties are working towards and meeting the specific Protocol control
measures, they should continue to be treated in the same manner as Parties in
good standing. In that regard, those Parties should continue to receive international
assistance to enable them to meet their commitments in accordance with item A
of the indicative list of measures that may be taken by a Meeting of the
Parties in respect of non-compliance. Through the present decision, however,
the Parties caution those Parties, in accordance with item B of the indicative
list of measures, that in the event that any Party fails to return to
compliance in a timely manner the Parties will consider measures consistent
with item C of the indicative list of measures. Those measures may include the
possibility of actions available under Article 4, such as ensuring that the
supply of methyl bromide (that is, the subject of non-compliance) is ceased and
that exporting Parties are not contributing to a continuing situation of non
compliance.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.15/9,
Decision XV/25).
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