RECYCLED SCHEDULE 2 CHEMICALS

The Conference

Recalling that the Commission, in its PC-IX/11, paragraph 7.2, adopted an understanding on recycled Schedule 2 chemicals,

Bearing in mind that the Commission recommended in paragraph 50.4 of its Final Report that the Conference adopt the above mentioned understanding,

Hereby:

1. Adopts the understanding on recycled Schedule 2 chemicals.

Annex

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Annex

RECYCLED SCHEDULE 2 CHEMCIALS[1]

1. A ''recycled Schedule 2 chemical'' is a chemical that is partly converted or consumed in a process and then recovered and re-introduced into the process upstream for another cycle of conversion or consumption followed by recovery. Any loss of Schedule 2 chemical from the process cycle through incomplete recovery will be compensated for by make-up quantities (net loss).

2. It is understood that a plant site containing a plant in which a Schedule 2 chemical undergoes a cycle of consumption and regeneration will, in accordance with Part VII, paragraph 8, make a declaration if, in total, (X+Y) exceeds the declaration threshold where:

X, expressed in the same unit as the declaration threshold, equals:

(a) for batch processes, the total amount of the Schedule 2 chemical charged (then consumed, regenerated and subsequently recovered in a separate process step); or

(b) for continuous processes, the total amount present in the reaction vessels and process streams; and

Y, expressed in the same units as the declaration threshold, equals the aggregate annual compensation for the net loss of that chemical.

It is further understood that the regeneration process is not required to be declared as a production of a Schedule 2 chemical in the cycle.

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