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Annex XI: Formats for reporting data under the amended Montreal Protocol

Document type
Decision
Reference number
-
Date
Jun 21, 1991
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Status
Active
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances, Air & atmosphere
Treaty
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Sep 16, 1987)
Meeting
Third Meeting of the Parties
Website
ozone.unep.org
Abstract

INTRODUCTION SHEET

1. The data formats are for the use of the Parties in reporting data on the production, import and export of each individual substances listed in the annexes of the Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, as required by Article 7.

2. There are 6 forms for reporting the required data:

(a) Data for the base years for controlling production and consumption

For reporting 1986 data, as required by Article 7, paragraph 1:

Form 1: Annex A substances

For reporting 1989 data, as required by Article 7, paragraph 2:

Form 1: Annex B substances

Form 2: Annex C substances

(b) Annual reporting of data for the year the Protocol enters into force for the country in question and for each year thereafter, in accordance with paragraph 3

Form 4: Annex A substances

Form 5: Annex B substances

Form 6: Annex C substances

3. Please report the data in metric tons, without multiplying by the relevant ODPS (Ozone Depleting Potentials). The data on each substance should also include isomers [Note 1.1.1. trichloroethane (methyl chloroform) does not include 1.1.2. trichloroethane].

4. The data reported in accordance with the formats will be used to determine the calculated levels of consumption upon which the control measures are based. It is thus crucial that data be provided separately for each individual substance listed in the formats.

5. Please note that both paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 7 provide that the Parties should submit the best possible estimates where actual data are not available.

6. In accordance with the recommendation of the Ad Hoc Group of Experts on the Reporting Data, which held its first meeting at Nairobi on 6 and 7 December 19910, the Parties are requested to report on the extra production as allowed to meet the basic domestic needs of countries operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the Protocol. The quantity of the production increase and the country to be supplied by this production increase should be reported under "quantity" and "destination".

The export figures as well as the production figures reported should include the increased amounts of production for supplying the countries operating under Article 5, paragraph 1. The allowable increase in production should also be reported as metric tonnes.

7. In accordance with the recommendation of the Ad Hoc Group of Experts on the Reporting of Data, which held its first meeting at Nairobi on 6 and 7 December, 1990, countries having free‑trade zones inside their territories should make a special effort to include in their data reporting production, import and export figures for such zones.

8. In accordance with the recommendation of the Ad Hoc Group of Experts on the Reporting of Data, which held its first meeting at Nairobi on 6 and 7 December 1990, the quantities of controlled substances used for refilling the refrigeration and fire‑extinguishing systems of ships in ports should be regarded as forming part of consumption of the country with jurisdiction over the part and should therefore, not, be included in its exports figures.

9. With regard to the data on "amounts destroyed", the Parties, decided at their Second Meeting, to establish an Ad Hoc technical advisory committee on destruction technologies to analyse destruction technologies and to assess their efficiency and environmental acceptability, so as to develop approval criteria and measurements. Separate data on the amounts destroyed need not be reported until such approval criteria are established.

10. Amounts used as feedstocks, e.g. amounts of carbon tetrachloride used as feedstock in the production of CFC 11 and 12, should be reported. They are to be subtracted from total production (see definition production).

11. No separate column has been included to record on the amounts recycled or reused. However, these amounts are not to be regarded as production (see definition of production).

DEFINITIONS

1. "Production" means the amount of controlled substances produced, minus the amount destroyed by technologies to be approved by the Parties and minus the amount entirely used as feedstock in the manufacture of other chemicals. The amount recycled and reused is not to be considered as "production" (Article 1, paragraph 5 of the Amendment).

2. "Consumption" means production plus imports minus exports of controlled substances (Article 1, paragraph 6, of the Protocol and the Amendment).

3. "calculated levels" of production, imports, exports and consumption mean levels determined in accordance with article 3 (Article 1, paragraph 7, of the Protocol and the Amendment).

4. "Transitional substance" means a substance in annex C to the Protocol, whether existing alone or in a mixture. It includes the isomers of any such substance, as may be specified in annex c, but excludes any transitional substance or mixture which is in a manufactured product other than a container used for the transportation or storage of that substance.

5. Methyl chloroform is 1,1,1‑trichloroethane and does not include 1,1,2‑trichloroethane.