Transcript i. Status of Compliance

Trinidad and Tobago Network Meeting
Status of Compliance and Impcom Results
Data Reporting
Establishment of Licensing Systems
Ratification of MP Amendments
In the Latin American
and Caribbean region
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Overview of Presentation
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ODS reporting
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HCFC trends
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Status of licensing
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Reporting status - QPS/Process agents
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Status of Ratifications
Outcomes
of 46th meeting of the Impcom
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Status of Reporting on ODS
As
of 1 October 2011, the Ozone
Secretariat had received data from all
Parties in the LAC region except Dominica
and Peru – best region in the world!
Nearly half the region faster than the 30/6
early deadline called for by decision XV/15
That said, Dominica and Peru - Please report
ASAP
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But it is not just the timing – in substance,
the region is doing great
All countries in the region who have
reported, reported 0 consumption of
controlled CFC, halon, HBFCs, other CFCs
and BCM for 2010!
Only 1 party reported MCL (even though PO
is 2015)
Less than a third of LAC region reported
MBR
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Continuing LA Challenges - HCFCs
Party
2009 2010
2009 2010
Brazil
1415 1239 Argentina 326 475
Colombia 209 241 Chile
75 100
Costa Rica 14
32 Cuba
12 22
Dom Rep
48
53 Ecuador
21 14
Honduras 17
22 El Salvador 12 11
Mexico
1126 1717 Guatemala 9
7
Uruguay
22
24 Nicaragua
6
7
Panama
25
24 Paraguay
15 21
Venezuela 216
198
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11 trend up – 6 down
Continuing Challenges - HCFCs
Party
2009 2010
Party 2009
Antigua 0.5 0.1 Jamaica 18.2
Bahamas 3.5 6.1 St Kitts
0.4
Barbados 4.5
2.3 St Lucia 0.4
Belize
2.5
3.1 St Vincent 0.4
Dominica 0.4
Suriname 2.7
Grenada 0.8
0.8 T&T
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Guyana 0.9
2.4 Haiti
1.9
2010
14.4
0.6
0.2
1.3
53.9
1.8
5 parties trending up – 7 down or stable 6
Status of Licensing Systems
All Montreal Ratifiers must have system to
license imports AND exports of ALL ODS
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Region is in excellent shape on this item
However, more then cursory compliance is
essential to ensure phaseout – are all ODS
including HCFCs and MBR licensed in your
country? Impcom is reviewing
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Decision XX/6 - QPS Reporting – Have you
prepared your QPS submission???
Parties must report QPS annually as
required by MP – leaving blank not option
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The Secretariat now posts QPS data on the
web
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non reporting of QPS will be reviewed by
the Impcom and may be treated as non
compliance
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QPS Reporting in the LAC Region
15 of the 33 Parties in the region have
reported QPS regularly: Argentina,
Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua,
Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay
18 have not reported regularly
All should report on this in 2011!
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Continued Push for Global Ratification of all
Amendments
All have ratified Montreal Protocol
 All have ratified London and Copenhagen
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All have ratified Montreal amendment
except Nicaragua
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Beijing – Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti, Nicaragua
and Peru have not ratified yet
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Failure to ratify Beijing could restrict
HCFCs – Secretariat glad to help
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Decision XX/9: Application of Trade
Provisions of the Protocol to HCFCs
 Changed past decision to make clear that
the trade provisions will apply to
developing country trade in HCFCs
beginning 1 January 2013
What this means is that if the Beijing
amendment has not entered into force for
Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Peru
by that date, you may not be able to get
HCFCs! Please strive to ratify all
amendments!!!!!
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Process Agents (PA)
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Process agents: ODS used as a catalyst in the
production of other chemicals/products (eg:
chlorinated rubber and endosulfin). Often, most ODS
is destroyed in the process – sometimes emissions.
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Decision XXII/8 asked TEAP to break out process
agent uses by country
XXI/3
asked for all countries to ensure that they have
reported, at least once, to say they do not use ODS
as a PA. We sent letter with a form for you to fill in
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Process Agents Contd
We do not yet have recorded the
submissions of 15 of 33 Parties in the
region:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada,
Guatemala, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, El
Salvador, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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46th Impcom Meeting – initial review
Found
Guatemala, Paraguay, St. Vincent
Uruguay met action plan targets; Bolivia
had not yet reported
Reviewed
requests for baseline changes
(Guyana and Barbados requested)
Reviewed
exports to non-parties
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46th Impcom contd
– in full compliance with
Copenhagen so as to obviate sanctions?
Nepal
Status of licensing – are the licensing
systems complete?
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Process agent reports in?
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Decimal places – move to 2 or 3 places?
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We now round data to one decimal place.
What difference can a decimal place make?
Example:
HCFC 22 has an ODP of .055. If
if a Party reports imports of, for example, .8
tonnes of HCFC 22, Its calculated level of
consumption is .044 ODP tonnes,
Since .044 is below .05, rounding to 1
decimal place rounds .044 to 0
For
perspective …….
Ozone Secretariat
Oct 2011
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.044 ODPt = 0???
EIA picture
Oct 2011
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1 Decimal Place with low ODP HCFCs
raises many issues
Excom mandate is to enable compliance;
Are 0 ODP Parties eligible for MLF help?
If all 196 parties eligible to import .049
ODPt of HCFC 22, that is 10k to 15k
canisters
In fact, 1 decimal place std allows each
Party to import .04999 ODPt from each
annex
Ozone Secretariat
Oct 2011
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What do you think of the
New Ozone Secretariat Website
http://montreal-protocol.org
We
hope to have the Spanish and French
versions ready by the end of the year
See you in Bali!
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