6. Parties are required to submit data on a given period no later than nine months after the end of that period. Therefore data for the period 1 July 1992 to 31 December 1992 are not, strictly speaking, due. However, there would be considerable presentational gains to be made for territories such as Hong Kong in submitting this data for CFCS 11 etc and halons should it be available.
B.
Has Hong Kong supplied the relevant data?
7. DOE confirm that they have Hong Kong data to cover all paragraphs 3 a) and 4 a). They also have consumption data for CFCS 11, 12, 113, 114, 115 and halons 1211 and 1301 in metric tonnes.
8. DOE further confirm, that they have data from Hong Kong on a sixth monthly basis to cover all the periods in 3b), c), and all but the last six months of 1992 to cover 3d) and 4b). However, it is in ODP weighted tonnes rather than metric tonnes.
9.
Hong Kong has also now supplied data for 5a). The figures for other fully halogenated CFCs, carbon tetrachloride and 1,1,1 trichloroethane are in ODP weighted tonnes. The figures for transitional substances are in metric tonnes.
10.
There is, however, no data to show where imports were from under 3e) and 4c).
C. Does Hong Kong comply with developed country controls
11. Some intricate mathematics turning metric tonnes in to ODP weighted tonnes, and adding and subtracting, shows that they probably comply with the freeze in 3b) and c). It would, however, be somewhat easier if Hong Kong could supply their data in metric tonnes. This is how the Secretariat ask for it, and it would be useful to have some consistency.