(b) Consideration of the handbook on critical use nominations At their Sixteenth Meeting, the Parties agreed that they would take up the approval of the revised critical use handbook at their Seventeenth Meeting.

Review of critical use nominations for methyl bromide for 2006.

Decision XVII __ Laboratory and analytical critical uses of methyl bromide

Draft decision XVII F Laboratory and analytical critical uses of methyl bromide

In that revision, an effort had been made to provide a one stop shop for critical use nominations.

Review of new nominations for critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2006 and 2007

(a) Review of new nominations for critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2006 and 2007

Modification of the handbook on critical use nominations (paragraph 113 of the report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties)

Item 4 (a) Review of new nominations for critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2006 and 2007

2006 nominations approved in the interim as contained in

Section section III of the Annex annex to Decision decision XVI 2

Representatives of a number of environmental non governmental organizations expressed serious concern over the issue of critical use exemptions.

(d) Modification of the Handbook on critical use nominations (paragraph 113 of the report of the sSixteenth Meeting of the Parties

For 2006, a total of 15,541 tonnes had been nominated for critical use exemptions in comparison with the 16,050 approved for critical uses for 2005.

Item 4 (d) Modification of the handbook on critical use nominations (paragraph 113 of the report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties)

The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Meetings of the Parties considered the issue of criteria for the approval of multi year critical use exemptions for methyl bromide.

The Committee's final recommendations on the 2006 and 2007 critical use nominations can be found in table 4 of its 2005 supplemental report.

A draft revised handbook was made available to the Open ended Working Group at its twenty fifth meeting, and it was agreed that Parties with concerns or comments on that document should send in their comments to the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee, so that they could be taken into account in the preparation of a final proposal, which would be submitted to the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties.

Directly related to this that agenda item is decision XVI 2 of the th sixteenth Meeting of the Parties, entitled Critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2005 and .

(a) Presentation and consideration of the 2005 supplemental report of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee, including the Parties' 2006 and 2007 nominations for critical use exemptions Pursuant to paragraph 2 of decision IX 6 and decision XIII 11, 89 new 2006 and 2007 nominations for critical use exemptions for methyl bromide were submitted early in 2005 by 15 Parties.

Pursuant to paragraph 2 of decision IX 6 and decision XIII 11, new 2006 and 2007 nominations for critical use exemptions for methyl bromide were submitted by the following Parties.

E. Standard presumptions that underlie the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee's recommendations on critical use nominations (annex I, paragraph 2 of the report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties)

(e) Standard presumptions that underlie the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee'sBTOC recommendations of critical use nominations (annex I, paragraph 2, of the report of the sSixteenth Meeting of the Parties2

in the October 2004 Report report of TEAP on critical critical use nominations for methyl bromide

At their Sixteenth Meeting, the Parties agreed that they needed more time to review the handbook on critical use nominations for methyl bromide and its appendices before they could consider its adoption.

Table 3 Summary of critical use nominations for methyl bromide for consideration by the Parties at their Seventeenth Meeting, by country and aggregated (quantities in metric tonnes)

As the Parties will note, tThere is only one substantive issue on the agenda for the Second second Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties , namely, Review of the critical critical use nominations for methyl bromide for 2006 (item 3 of the provisional agenda).

Item 4 (e) Standard presumptions that underlie the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee's recommendations on critical use nominations (annex I, paragraph 2 of the report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties)4

In order to determine the relative effectiveness of alternatives to and possible suitability for critical use nominations, MBTOC was conducting a series of meta analyses of research studies conducted since 1995.

A specific list of the uses agreed on an interim basis, and those which had been identified by TEAP as unable to assess , are included in the two tables below.

Critical Mass.

He reminded the meeting that the Open ended Working Group had traditionally used this agenda item to allow MBTOC to address general questions that the Parties might have regarding the ongoing review of the critical use nominations.

Iraq s Critical Election

Elaboration During this defining phase, the critical business processes are decomposed to critical use cases.

(d) existing uses of the waters

The Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties adopted decision XVI 3, in which it decided that it would elaborate, as far as possible at the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties, a framework for spreading a critical use exemption over more than one year, taking into account a large number of specific elements delineated in the decision.

The Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties adopted decision XVI 3, in which it decided that it would elaborate as far as possible, at the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties, a framework for spreading a critical use exemption over more than one year, taking into account a large number of specific elements delineated in the decision.

Many representatives expressed thanks to the European Community for its proposal, although most considered that it would be premature to discuss the proposal before the issue of the critical use exemptions for methyl bromide by Parties not operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 had been resolved.

In response to requests that the meta analysis of research studies on the relative effectiveness of alternatives to and the possible suitability of critical use nominations be circulated before the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties, the Open ended Working Group was informed that the analysis would be ready before the end of September 2005.

Overall, she was of the view that it had done a good job, but she still had a few concerns, including the question of how issues that arose shortly before the Meeting of the Parties was due to discuss critical use nominations could be dealt with.

A representative of an industry association urged Parties not to authorize essential use exemptions for CFC containing salbutamol MDIs for countries in which there are approved CFC free alternatives, as in her view this contravened decision IV 25 and she called for a reduced level for the United States.

h. The sustainability of proposed or existing uses and

Enhancing water use efficiency and managing competing uses

The States parties recall that the Treaty fosters the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy by providing a framework of confidence and cooperation within which those uses can take place.

The critical angle is approximately 41 for glass in air.