UNEP/OzL.Pro.22/1

UNITED
NATIONS / EP
UNEP/OzL.Pro.22/1[*]
/ United Nations
Environment
Programme / Distr.: General
9 July 2010
Original: English

Twenty-Second Meeting of the Parties to the

Montreal Protocol on Substances that

Deplete the Ozone Layer

Bangkok, 8–12 November 2010

Provisional agenda

I. Preparatory segment (8–10 November 2010)

  1. Opening of the preparatory segment:

(a)  Statements by representative(s) of the Government of Thailand;

(b)  Statements by representative(s) of the United Nations Environment Programme.

  1. Organizational matters:

(a)  Adoption of the agenda of the preparatory segment;

(b)  Organization of work.

  1. Consideration of membership of Montreal Protocol bodies for 2011:

(a)  Members of the Implementation Committee;

(b)  Members of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol;

(c)  Co-chairs of the Open-ended Working Group;

(d)  Co-chairs of the assessment panels.

  1. Financial reports of the trust funds for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and budgets of the Montreal Protocol.
  2. Issues related to the financial mechanism under Article 10 of the Montreal Protocol:

(a)  Terms of reference for an evaluation of the financial mechanism (decisionXXI/28);

(b)  Terms of reference for a study on the 2012–2014 replenishment of the Multilateral Fund;

(c)  Assessment of the hydrochlorofluorocarbon guidelines approved by the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund.

  1. Status of hydrochlorofluorocarbons blended in polyols as controlled substances under the Montreal Protocol.
  2. Environmentally sound management of banks of ozone-depleting substances:

(a)  Technologies and related facilities for the destruction of ozone-depleting substances;

(b)  Environmentally sound management of banks of ozonedepleting substances.

  1. Proposed amendments to the Montreal Protocol.
  2. Phase-out of HFC-23 as a by-product emission of the production of HCFC-22.
  3. Issues related to exemptions from Article 2 of the Montreal Protocol:

(a)  Nominations for critical-use exemptions for 2011 and 2012;

(b)  Quarantine and pre-shipment uses of methyl bromide;

(c)  Nominations for essential-use exemptions for 2011;

(d)  Laboratory and analytical uses of ozonedepleting substances (decision XXI/6);

(e)  Issues relating to the uses of ozonedepleting substances as process agents (decisionXXI/3).

  1. Special situation of Haiti.
  2. Compliance and data reporting issues:

(a)  Treatment of stockpiled ozonedepleting substances relative to compliance;

(b)  Presentation on and consideration of the work and recommended decisions of the Implementation Committee.

  1. Other matters.

II. High-level segment (11 and 12 November 2010)

1.  Opening of the high-level segment:

(a)  Statements by representative(s) of the Government of Thailand;

(b)  Statements by representative(s) of the United Nations;

(c)  Statement by the President of the Twenty-First Meeting of the Parties.

2.  Organizational matters:

(a)  Election of officers for the TwentySecond Meeting of the Parties;

(b)  Adoption of the agenda of the TwentySecond Meeting of the Parties;

(c)  Organization of work;

(d)  Credentials of representatives.

3.  Status of ratification of the Vienna Convention, the Montreal Protocol and the amendments to the Montreal Protocol.

4.  Presentation by the assessment panels on their quadrennial assessment.

5.  Presentation by the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund on the work of the Executive Committee, the Multilateral Fund Secretariat and the Fund’s implementing agencies.

6.  Statements by heads of delegations.

7.  Report by the co-chairs of the preparatory segment and consideration of the decisions recommended for adoption by the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Parties.

8.  Dates and venue for the TwentyThird Meeting of the Parties.

9.  Other matters.

10.  Adoption of decisions by the TwentySecond Meeting of the Parties.

11.  Adoption of the report of the TwentySecond Meeting of the Parties.

12.  Closure of the meeting.

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[*] Reissued for technical reasons on 6 October 2010.