(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

Review of critical use nominations for methyl bromide for 2006.

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

Decision XVI 2. Critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2005 and 2006

Section IIA 2006 agreed critical use categories (metric tonnes)

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

Section IA 2005 agreed supplemental critical use categories (metric tonnes)

Section III 2006 approved critical use nominations under paragraph 5 (metric tonnes)

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

Taking into account the criteria and procedures for the assessment of critical uses of methyl bromide articulated in decision IX 6,

2006 nominations approved in the interim as contained in

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

(a) Those portions of the 2006 critical use nominations set forth in section III of the annex to the present decision

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

Cognizant of its duty to assess critical uses of methyl bromide under Article 2H, paragraph 5, of the Montreal Protocol,

The production and consumption of the European Community shall not exceed 3,225.310 metric tonnes for the purposes of the agreed critical uses.

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.

(ii) To zero ODP tonnes by 1 January 2015, save for critical uses that may be authorized by the Parties after that date

Suggested Applications

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.

(iii) To zero ODP tonnes by 1 January 2015, save for essential uses that may be authorized by the Parties after that date

Directly related to this agenda item is decision XVI 2 of the sixteenth Meeting of the Parties, titled Critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2005 and 2006 .

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

(b) The 2006 critical use nominations that were identified as unable to assess in the October 2004 report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel,

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)

(d) existing uses of the waters

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).

In that decision, the Parties granted final approval to the supplementary critical use levels for 2005 set forth in sections IA and IB of the annex to that decision, and to certain specific 2006 critical use nominations, set forth in sections IIA and IIB of the annex to that decision.

Critical Mass.

CRlTICAL MASS