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107TH CONGRESS ExEc. RPT.
2d Session J SENATE 107-10
AMENDMENTS TO THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON
SUBSTANCES THAT DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER
OCTOBER 2, 2002.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BIDEN, from the Committee on Foreign Relations,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany Treaty Docs. 106-10 and 106-32]
The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which were referred the
Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete
the Ozone Layer, adopted at Montreal on September 15-17, 1997
by the Ninth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol; and
the Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, adopted at Beijing on De-
cember 3, 1999 by the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties to the Mon-
treal Protocol, having considered the same, reports favorably there-
on and recommends that the Senate give its advice and consent to
ratification thereof as set forth in this report and the accompanying
resolutions of advice and consent to ratification.
CONTENTS
Page
I. P u rpose ........................................................................................................... 1
II. B ackground ................................................................................................... 2
III. E ntry Into Force ........................................................................................... 4
IV. Committee Action and Comments ............................................................... 4
V. Texts of Resolutions of Advice and Consent to Ratification ...................... 5
I. PURPOSE
The purposes of the 1997 amendment (hereafter the Montreal
Amendment) are the expansion of trade controls to include methyl
bromide and the addition of a licensing requirement for trade in
certain controlled substances. The purposes of the 1999 amend-
ment (hereafter the Beijing Amendment) are the addition of
bromochloromethane as a controlled substance, along with associ-
ated control measures; the addition of a freeze in the level of pro-
duction of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) from January 1,
2004; the addition of a ban on trade with non-Parties in HCFCs
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