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Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group
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3-6 July 2006 | Montréal, Canada | |||||||
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Highlights for Monday, 3 July 2006
The twenty-sixth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG-26) of parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer opened in Montreal, Canada today. After adding several items to the agenda, delegates adopted the revised agenda and approved the organization of work before commencing discussion of the substantive items on the agenda, including: issues arising out of the 2006 TEAP progress report; new nominations for essential-use exemptions for 2007 and 2008; difficulties faced by some Article 5 countries manufacturing CFC-based MDIs; and treament of stockpiled ODS relative to compliance.
A contact group convened in the evening to discuss the difficulties faced by some Article 5 parties in moving toward the phase-out of manufacturing MDIs containing CFCs.
The EC (above) noted its willingness to review its essential-use nominations in light of new developments and proposed limiting the domestic allocation of CFCs to companies that have made best efforts to develop and seek approval of CFC alternatives.
Nigeria (below), supported by the African Group and Mexico, asked that the essential-use nominations by the Russian Federation be subject to the full TEAP evaluation process before being approved.
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