Handbook for the International Treaties for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - Sixth Edition

This handbook compiles the legal texts and institutional decisions relating to the international framework for the protection of the ozone layer. It brings together the full texts of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, together with amendments, adjustments and decisions adopted by the Conferences and Meetings of the Parties up to the end of 2002. The handbook also includes rules of procedure, summaries of control measures, financial and compliance arrangements, essential use exemptions, assessment panel information, the evolution of the Montreal Protocol, and sources of further information to support the implementation and interpretation of the treaties.