- 1. Incorporated in Article 2A.
- 2. Replaced by Article 2B.
- 3. Replaced by Article 2A.
- 4. Replaced by Article 2A.
- 5. Any Party may, for one or more control periods, transfer to another
Party any portion of its calculated level of production set out in Articles 2A to
2F, Articles 2H and 2J, provided that the total combined calculated levels of production
of the Parties concerned for any group of controlled substances do not exceed the
production limits set out in those Articles for that group. Such transfer of production
shall be notified to the Secretariat by each of the Parties concerned, stating the
terms of such transfer and the period for which it is to apply.
5. bis. Any Party not operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 may, for one or more control periods, transfer to another such Party any portion of its calculated level of consumption set out in Article 2F, provided that the calculated level of consumption of controlled substances in Group I of Annex A of the Party transferring the portion of its calculated level of consumption did not exceed 0.25 kilograms per capita in 1989 and that the total combined calculated levels of consumption of the Parties concerned do not exceed the consumption limits set out in Article 2F. Such transfer of consumption shall be notified to the Secretariat by each of the Parties concerned, stating the terms of such transfer and the period for which it is to apply. - 6. Any Party not operating under Article 5, that has facilities for the production of Annex A or Annex B controlled substances under construction, or contracted for, prior to 16 September 1987, and provided for in national legislation prior to 1 January 1987, may add the production from such facilities to its 1986 production of such substances for the purposes of determining its calculated level of production for 1986, provided that such facilities are completed by 31 December 1990 and that such production does not raise that Party’s annual calculated level of consumption of the controlled substances above 0.5 kilograms per capita.
- 7. Any transfer of production pursuant to paragraph 5 or any addition of production pursuant to paragraph 6 shall be notified to the Secretariat, no later than the time of the transfer or addition.
- 8.
- 9.
- 10. Based on the assessments made pursuant to Article 6 of this Protocol and in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 9 of the Convention, the Parties may decide:
- 11. Notwithstanding the provisions contained in this Article and Articles 2A to 2J Parties may take more stringent measures than those required by this Article and Articles 2A to 2J.
(a) Any Parties which are Member States of a regional economic integration organization as defined in Article 1 (6) of the Convention may agree that they shall jointly fulfil their obligations respecting consumption under this Article and Articles 2A to 2J provided that their total combined calculated level of consumption does not exceed the levels required by this Article and Articles 2A to 2J. Any such agreement may be extended to include obligations respecting consumption or production under Article 2J provided that the total combined calculated level of consumption or production of the Parties concerned does not exceed the levels required by Article 2J.
(b) The Parties to any such agreement shall inform the Secretariat of the terms of the agreement before the date of the reduction in consumption with which the agreement is concerned.
(c) Such agreement will become operative only if all Member States of the regional economic integration organization and the organization concerned are Parties to the Protocol and have notified the Secretariat of their manner of implementation.
(a) Based on the assessments made pursuant to Article 6, the Parties
may decide whether:
(i) Adjustments to the ozone depleting
potentials specified in Annex A, Annex B, Annex C and/or Annex E should be made
and, if so, what the adjustments should be;
(ii) Adjustments to the global warming potentials
specified in Group I of Annex A, Annex C and Annex F should be made and, if so,
what the adjustments should be; and
(iii) Further adjustments and reductions of production
or consumption of the controlled substances should be undertaken and, if so, what
the scope, amount and timing of any such adjustments and reductions should be;
(b) Proposals for such adjustments shall be communicated to the Parties by the Secretariat at least six months before the meeting of the Parties at which they are proposed for adoption;
(c) In taking such decisions, the Parties shall make every effort to reach agreement by consensus. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted, and no agreement reached, such decisions shall, as a last resort, be adopted by a two-thirds majority vote of the Parties present and voting representing a majority of the Parties operating under Paragraph 1 of Article 5 present and voting and a majority of the Parties not so operating present and voting;
(d) The decisions, which shall be binding on all Parties, shall forthwith be communicated to the Parties by the Depositary. Unless otherwise provided in the decisions, they shall enter into force on the expiry of six months from the date of the circulation of the communication by the Depositary.
(a) whether any substances, and if so which, should be added to or removed from any annex to this Protocol, and
(b) the mechanism, scope and timing of the control measures that should apply to those substances;