Montreal Protocol 7

Montreal Protocol

 

Article 7: Reporting of Data

1. Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat, within three months of
becoming a Party, statistical data on its production, imports and exports
of each of the controlled substances in Annex A for the year 1986, or the
best possible estimates of such data where actual data are not available.

2. Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat statistical data on its
production, imports and exports of each of the controlled substances

— in Annexes B and C, for the year 1989;

— in Annex E, for the year 1991,

or the best possible estimates of such data where actual data are not
available, not later than three months after the date when the provisions
set out in the Protocol with regard to the substances in Annexes B, C and E
respectively enter into force for that Party.

3. Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat statistical data on its
annual production (as defined in paragraph 5 of Article 1) of each of the
controlled substances listed in Annexes A, B, C and E and, separately, for
each substance,

— Amounts used for feedstocks,

— Amounts destroyed by technologies approved by the Parties, and

— Imports from and exports to Parties and non-Parties respectively,

for the year during which provisions concerning the substances in Annexes A
B, C and E respectively entered into force for that Party and for each year
thereafter. Data shall be forwarded not later than nine months after the
end of the year to which the data relate.

3 bis. Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat separate statistical
data of its annual imports and exports of each of the controlled substances
listed in Group II of Annex A and Group I of Annex C that have been
recycled.

4. For Parties operating under the provisions of paragraph 8(a) of Article
2, the requirements in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 3 bis of this Article in
respect of statistical data on imports and exports shall be satisfied if
the regional economic integration organization concerned provides data on
imports and exports between the organization and States that are not
members of that organization.

Article 8: Non-Compliance

The Parties, at their first meeting, shall consider and approve procedures
and institutional mechanisms for determining non-compliance with the
provisions of this Protocol and for treatment of Parties found to be in
non-compliance.

Article 9: Research, Development, Public Awareness
and Exchange of Information

1. The Parties shall cooperate, consistent with their national laws,
regulations and practices and taking into account in particular the needs
of developing countries, in promoting, directly or through competent
international bodies, research, development and exchange of information on:

(a) Best technologies for improving the containment, recovery, recycling
or destruction of controlled substances or otherwise reducing their
emissions;
(b) Possible alternatives to controlled substances, to products
containing such substances, and to products manufactured with them;
and
(c) Costs and benefits of relevant control strategies.

2. The Parties, individually, jointly or through competent international
bodies, shall cooperate in promoting public awareness of the environmental
effects of the emissions of controlled substances and other substances that
deplete the ozone layer.

3. Within two years of the entry into force of this Protocol and every two
years thereafter, each Party shall submit to the secretariat a summary of
the activities it has conducted pursuant to this Article.

Conclusion

Notes

See Also

References and Further Reading

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