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Decision XIX/18: Laboratory and analytical‑use exemption

Document type
Decision
Reference number
XIX/18
Date
Sep 21, 2007
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
Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties
Website
ozone.unep.org
Abstract
  1. To extend until 31 December 2011 the global laboratory and analytical‑use exemption, under the conditions set out in annex II of the report of the Sixth Meeting of the Parties and decisions XV/8, XVI/16, and XVIII/15, for the controlled substances in all annexes and groups of the Montreal Protocol except Annex C, group I;
  2. To request the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and its Chemicals Technical Options Committee to provide, by the Twenty-first Meeting of the Parties, a list of laboratory and analytical uses of ozone-depleting substances, indicating those for which alternatives exist and which are therefore no longer necessary and describing those alternatives;
  3. To eliminate the testing of organic matter in coal from the global exemption for laboratory and analytical uses of controlled substances.