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Ministerial Decree No. 678 on the arrangements for state regulation of export and import of ozone depleting substances.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2009
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Air & atmosphere
Keyword
Ozone layer International trade
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

This Ministerial Decree implements the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985) and the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987). It establishes that export and import of ozone depleting substances shall authorized in the following cases: (a) use as raw materials for manufacturing of other chemicals; (b) special exceptional cases envisaged by the Montreal Protocol; and (c) transit from one to other states that are signatories of the Montreal Protocol.

Full text
Russian
Website
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