HC Deb 13 March 1989 vol 149 cc92-3W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the countries which have so far ratified the Montreal protocol of 1987 on the ozone layer.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The following had become Parties to the protocol before the London "Saving the Ozone Layer" conference held on 5–7 March:

  • Belgium
  • Byelorussian SSR
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • Egypt
  • Finland
  • France
    • 93
  • Federal Republic of Germany
  • German Democratic Republic
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kenya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Singapore
  • pain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Uganda
  • Ukrainian SSR
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • European Community

(Total 33) source: United Nations environment programme).

At the conference some 20 further countries said that they would become parties and another 14 said that they would seriously consider doing so.