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On behalf of the undersigned environmental non-government organizations, we are writing to express our disappointment and concern that the European Commission agreed to allow very large methyl bromide ‘critical use’ exemptions for 2008 for the United States (US) at the November 2006 Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol.
The exemptions authorised were 23% higher than the quantity that had been recommended by the Protocol’s technical advisory body. In addition, the Commission failed to insist that the tonnage of new production of methyl bromide in the USA should be reduced substantially to take account of large stockpiles.