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UNEP/OzL.Pro/WG.1/19/1

5 March 1999

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP OF THE PARTIES TO
THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON SUBSTANCES THAT
DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER

Nineteenth meeting
Geneva, 15-18 June 1999

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1. Opening of the meeting
2. Organizational matters:

(a) Adoption of the agenda;

(b) Organization of work.

3. Assessment issues:

(a) Presentation of the 1998 assessment reports of the Scientific, Environmental Effects, and Technology and Economic Assessment Panels (Article 6 of the Montreal Protocol) (decision VII/34);

(b) Presentation of the IPCC/Montreal Protocol Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere (decision VII/34).

4. Presentation of the reports of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel:

(a) The level of replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for the period 2000-2002 (decision X/13);

(b) The work of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel on the implications on the implementation of the Montreal Protocol of the inclusion of hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons in the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (decision X/16);

(c) The quarantine and pre-shipment exemption of methyl bromide (decision X/11);

(d) Applications for essential-use exemptions for ozone-depleting substances for 2000 and beyond;

(e) The quantity of CFCs likely to be required by Article 5 Parties for the period 1999-2010 as well as quantities which need to be produced and exported by non-Article 5 Parties in the same period (decision X/15);

(f) The development and availability of laboratory and analytical procedures that can be performed without using controlled substances in Annexes A and B of the Protocol and which should no longer be eligible under the exemption for laboratory and analytical uses and the date from which any such restriction should apply (decision X/19).

5. Consideration of proposed adjustments and amendments to the Montreal Protocol and establishment of the legal drafting group to consolidate the adjustments and amendments proposed and to consider the options available under the Montreal Protocol to introduce controls on new ozone-depleting substances. (Article 9 of the Vienna Convention and Article 2, paragraph 9, of the Montreal Protocol and decision X/8).

6. Consideration of the 1999 report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel on the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund.

7. Consideration of the 1999 report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel on other issues.

8. Imports and exports of products and equipment relying on Annex A and Annex B substances (decision X/9, paragraph 6).

9. Action taken by non-Article 5 Parties to consider banning the placing on the market and sale of virgin CFCs, except to meet the basic domestic needs of Article 5 Parties and other exempted uses, in accordance with decision IX/23 of the Ninth Meeting of the Parties (decision IX/23).

10. Consideration of the report of the Secretariat on the customs codes of the Harmonized System (decision X/18).

11. Consideration of the report of the treasurer on fixed currency exchange rate mechanism for the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund (decision X/32).

12. Issues arising out of the Twenty-second meeting of the Implementation Committee.

13. Other matters.

14. Adoption of the report.