6320 Suspension of issuance of licences

General licensing (point 8 of the matrix)

41 7) were also taken into account.

Licensing Systems in the Countries Visited

Licensing Systems, Customs Procedures and Illegal Imports Detected

Licensing of chemical installations entities use of materials (point 12 of the matrix)

In practice, however, official licensing has been delayed for many years.

Report of the Executive Committee on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects

When provided, the most frequent explanation for delays is related to delays in implementing the licensing system.

Export control legislation in place Individual licensing (point 7 of the matrix)

Dedicated tourism laws can help by drawing attention to, and enabling, the promotion of sustainability in the sector, but of equal importance is the harmonization and communication of other laws that affect tourism, such as labour and environment laws.

Some licensing and training activities are also carried out as part of national phase out plans implemented by the World Bank.

As can be seen in the overview of PCRs for licensing projects in Annex IIa, little information has been provided on the modalities of licensing systems in place, and most importantly, no information is to be found relating to the actual implementation and effectiveness of the system.

However, certain additional preparations have been made relating to e.g. the organization of the licensing and monitoring authorities.

50 of Project Completion Reports (PCRs) have been received for completed stand alone licensing projects and 85 and 75 respectively for licensing projects as part of an RMP and for regional customs training projects.

Due to import licensing and customs training, illegal imports of CFCs have been detected and seized in several cases.

The UK national statutory Licensing Authority is the Export Control Organisation (ECO), part of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Comments on the draft were received from Burkina Faso, Canada, Paraguay, Poland, Sweden, UNDP and UNEP and were taken into account for finalizing the present document.

Only 29 of PCRs due have been received for completed regional licensing system projects.

So far 181 customs training, licensing systems, and related projects have been approved.

Report of the Executive Committee on the Evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects to the twenty fifth meeting of the Open ended Working Group

In the last 3 4 years, there has been a major increase in licensing systems and customs training projects.

The main reason for such delays is that it takes longer than foreseen to draft national legislation on licensing systems.

Commendable progress has been made in the diamond mining sector, particularly in the area of licensing and the substantial increase in the official exports of diamonds.

report on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing

It also requested the Executive Committee to consider making an evaluation of customs officers training and licensing systems projects a priority and to report, if possible, to the 16th Meeting of the Parties.

Only 12 projects support licensing systems as such, and in these cases the average funding ranges from US  10,000 to US  50,000.

Licences are only issued where the application is consistent with the Consolidated EU and National Criteria, which appropriately incorporate relevant UK international commitments.

The ECO also provides the interagency review for licences, and takes advice from all other Departments with an interest in licence applications, as such operating on an inter agency basis.

So far 181 licensing system and customs training and related projects have been approved 51 have been completed and 45 PCRs have been received.

In others, e.g. Sudan, no reference is made in legal acts to such substances, even if the Ozone Office maintained that such goods have to be subject to the licensing system.

In this context, the State party could also consider reviewing the legislation governing work permits and envisage issuing work permits directly to employees.

The Latin American and the Caribbean region accounts for 17 out of the 38 approved projects related to licensing systems (45 ), followed by Africa with 8 projects (21 ), Asia and the Pacific with 7 projects (18 ).

Since the introduction and actual application of the licensing system, significant reduction of CFC consumption has been achieved in most countries due to the increasingly restricted availability of CFCs (see Table 5 below).

On the one hand, seized illegal imports demonstrate the efficiency of the licensing system and actual customs controls, on the other they indicate that demand for cheap CFCs continues to be important.

Table 11a Licensing Systems

Table 11b Licensing Systems

In 2003, 734 licenses to practice medicine were issued, 49 to women, also, 169 new pharmaceutical licenses were issued, 63 to women.

The report of the Executive Committee on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects was prepared in order to enable the Committee to respond to decision XIV 7, paragraph 6, of the Fourteenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol.

In general, audited verification confirms that data relating to import quota allocations and actual imports are correct and procedures for issuing licenses and import permits have been in line with legal regulations.

It is recommended that UNEP should continue to address higher level officials from customs and other government departments to raise their awareness and to ensure high level support for the correct application of the licensing system and identification of ODS imports.

While for India this is already taking place, there is no information whether such exporter importer data exchange is happening also for China or in any other region.

UNEP's CAP team supports the Ozone Secretariat in monitoring the status of implementation of licensing systems especially in countries where UNEP is the lead agency or is implementing the Institutional Strengthening (IS) projects.

Licences are only issued for these activities.

The licenses are issued for one year and may be renewed.