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Speaking Note

Paul Lin 8.10.93

R Bunken J Rogan Ď Skinner

The 1992 Copenhagen Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on

Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 031/5

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1.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the

Ozone Layer ('The Protocol') seeks to control the consumption,

production, import and supply of bulk chemicals which deplete the

ozone layer. The UK ratified the Protocol on 16 December 1988

and Hong Kong was included in the ratification. The Chinese side

had been consulted in advance under the Agreed Consultation

Guidelines on the continued application of the Protocol after

1997 in July 1988 and had confirmed their agreement on 19 August

1988.

2.

In June 1990, the Second Meeting of the Parties to the

Protocol held in London adopted a set of amendments to the

Protocol (`The London

The UK ratified this

Amendment').

Amendment on 20 December 1991. The People's Republic of China

ratified it on 14 June 1991. The Chinese side was consulted and

agreed on 3 June 1993 that the London Amendment of the Protocol

should be extended to Hong Kong and would continue to be applied

to the Hong Kong SAR.

Extension of the UK ratification of the

London Amendment to Hong Kong is now in progress.

3.

held in

At the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol

it was agreed ('The

Copenhagen

in November 1992,

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