A clampdown on smuggling of ozone-eating CFCs is in sight. Meeting in
Montreal last week, 110 governments agreed to make licences compulsory for
importing and exporting all CFCs. The aim is to prevent the chemicals, which can
be legally manufactured for sale to developing countries, being diverted to
industrialised countries, where they are banned. The meeting also called on
industrialised countries to stop selling stockpiled CFCs and to set deadlines
for ending most uses of the pesticide methyl bromide: 2005 for industrialised
nations and 2015 for the developing world.
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