§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the outcome of the international meeting of Government experts held in Geneva during April on strategies to accelerate the phase out of ozone-depleting chemicals.
§ Mr. MacleanThis meeting provided the opportunity for parties to the Montreal protocol to propose changes to the protocol which might be agreed at the fourth meeting of the parties, to be held in November in Copenhagen. Proposals put forward included those from the EC, on which the Government provided explanatory memorandum 5162/92 on 21 May 1992. Substantive discussion of the various changes proposed will take place at the next meeting, to be held next month in Geneva.