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"UNEP: Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1987" [2005] ELECD 283; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 60

Section Title: UNEP: Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1987

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

60. UNEP: Montreal Protocol on Substances that
Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1987

Commentary: The Montreal Protocol (1522 UNTS 3 (1987), entry into force 1989)
is a Protocol to the preceding Vienna Convention. It was formulated so that phase-out
schedules could be revised on the basis of periodic scientific and technological assess-
ments. Article 2A (below) illustrates the consumption and production schedule for
CFCs. Similar consumption and production schedules are contemplated with respect
to halons (Article 2B), other fully halogenated CFCs (2C), carbon tetrachloride (2D),
trichloroethane or methyl chloroform (2E), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (2F), hydro-
bromofluorocarbons (2G), methyl bromide (2H) and bromochloromethane (2I).
Article 3 identifies the method for calculating control levels. Articles 4 and 4A specify
a schedule for banning the import of those controlled substances identified in the
Annexes from Parties and non-Parties. Article 4B establishes a licensing system for
importing and exporting new, used, recycled or reclaimed controlled substances listed
in Annexes A, B, C and E. Article 5 provides that to meet domestic needs developing
States may delay compliance for ten years. Article 6 contemplates assessing and
reviewing control measures every four years by panels of appropriately qualified
experts on the basis of available scientific, environmental, technical and economic
information. Article 7 envisages reporting statistical data to the secretariat, Article 8
concerns non-compliance and Article 10 establishes a Multilateral Financing Fund. The
Protocol was adjusted and/or amended to introduce new control measures and add
other controlled substances in London (1990), Copenhagen (1992), Vienna (1995),
Montreal ( ...