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The
Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties decided:
1. to request the Panel to establish a task
force, with the assistance of the Parties in identifying suitably qualified
members, to prepare the report requested by the Parties under decision XI/13
paragraph 4;
2. to request Parties that have not yet
submitted data to the Panel on this issue to provide best available data to the
task force before 31 March 2005, identifying as available all known uses of
methyl bromide for quarantine and pre shipment, by commodity and application;
3. in responding to the request under paragraph
2, to request the Parties to use best available data for the year 2002 or data
considered by the Party to be representative of a calendar year period;
4. to request the task force to report the data
submitted by the Parties under paragraphs 2 and 3, or previously submitted by
other Parties in response to the 14 April 2004 methyl bromide quarantine and
pre-shipment survey, by 31 May 2005, for the information of the Open-ended
Working Group at its twenty-fifth session;
5. also to request the task force, in reporting
pursuant to paragraph 4, to present the data in a written report in a format
aggregated by commodity and application so as to provide a global use pattern
overview, and to include available information on potential alternatives for
those uses identified by the Parties’ submitted data;
6. to request the Parties to provide information
to the task force, as available and based on best available data, on the
availability and technical and economic feasibility of applying in their
national circumstances the alternatives identified in paragraph 5, focusing in
particular on the Parties’ own uses, for the calendar year period reported
under paragraphs 2 and 3, by 30 November 2005, constituting either:
(a) more
than 10 per cent of their own total annual methyl bromide consumption for
quarantine and pre-shipment consumption; or
(b) in
the absence of uses over 10 per cent, which constitute their five highest
volume uses; or
(c) where
data is available to the Party, all their known uses;
7. to request the Panel, on the basis of
information contained in paragraph 6, to report to the Parties in accordance
with decision XI/13, paragraph 4, by 31 May 2006.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.16/17,
Decision XVI/10).
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