Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0503-0025
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2009-01-16T05:00Z

Decision XIX/18: Laboratory and analytical-use exemption

To extend until 31 December 2011 the global and analytical-use
exemption, under the conditions set out in annex II of the report of the
Sixth Meeting of the Parties and decisions XV/8, XVI/16, and XVIII/15,
for the controlled substances in all annexes and groups of the Montreal
Protocol except Annex C, group 1;

To request the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and its
Chemicals Technical Options Committee to provide, by the Twenty-first
Meeting of the Parties, a list of laboratory and analytical uses of
ozone-depleting substances, indicating those for which alternatives
exist and which are therefore no longer necessary and describing those
alternatives;

To eliminate the testing of organic matter in coal from the global
exemption for laboratory and analytical uses of controlled substances.