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Phase-out of the use of methyl bromide in Costa Rica

The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to approve the project to adopt alternatives in melon, cut flowers, banana, tobacco seedbeds and nurseries, leading to total methyl bromide phase-out in Costa Rica (excluding QPS), with the agreed conditions set out in Annex XII.9 to the present report.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/67, Decision 35/43, para. 78).

NOTE: This agreement was subsequently modified at the 48th Meeting of the Executive Committee.

The Forty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to approve the request by the Government of Costa Rica to revise the methyl bromide phase-out schedule in the agreement between the Government of Costa Rica and the Executive Committee attached as Annex XII.9 to the present report; and to request the Government of Costa Rica and UNDP to include in all future work programmes procedures for accelerating the introduction of full-scale alternative technologies in the melon sector.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/45, Decision 48/16 (b (ii)), para. 97).


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