International:


Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer

Objectives:
To protect the ozone layer by taking precautionary measures to control global emissions of the substances that deplete it.

Summary of Provisions:

• To control annual consumption and production of substances named in annex A.
  
• To reduce the annual consumption and production of the substances in Group I to 50 % of the annual level.
  
• A year after the entry of the Protocol into force, Parties should not import substances from a non-party to the Protocol
  
• The Protocol operates with the framework of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and it provides for measures of exchange of technology and information, calculation of control levels and assessment and review of the progress achieved.

Date of Adoption:
16.9.1987 (Montreal, Canada)

Date of entry into force:
1.1.1989

Arab Participants:
Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, U.A.E., Yemen