Meetings and Dates:

The Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP34), Bureau of the Thirty-Third Meeting of the Parties, and the sixty-ninth meeting of the Implementation Committee (ImpCom69) will be convened in-person in Montreal, Canada as follows: 

• ImpCom69 – 29 October 2022
• MOP33 Bureau – 30 October 2022
• MOP34 – 31 October-4 November 2022
   

Venue:

International Civil Aviation Organization Conference Centre 999 Robert-Bourassa Boulevard
Montréal, Québec H3C 5H7
Canada

Tel.: +1 514 954 8219

Website: www.icao.int

Invitation and Pre-registration:

The invitation letters and pre-registration information were sent out on 12 August 2022.

Delegations are requested to nominate representatives to the meetings as soon as possible and no later than Monday, 5 September 2022.

If any delegation is prevented from travelling due to COVID-19 measures in their country, please contact the Secretariat at mea-ozoneinfo [at] un.org (mea-ozoneinfo[at]un[dot]org).

Online forum:

The online forum containing documents for parties to review and comment comprises:

• Budget
• TOR for the replenishment study
• TEAP report on energy efficiency (List of ideas)
• Dumping of inefficient RAC appliances (African proposal)
• Gaps in Atmospheric Monitoring (EU proposal)
• Institutional processes of the MP (List of ideas)
• Ongoing emissions of CTC (Switzerland proposal)
• Critical use nominations for MB
• Stocks and QPS uses for MB
• TEAP and TOCs restructuring
• HFC alternatives (TEAP report)
• HFC consumption baseline for Article 5 parties (proposal by Cuba)

Online forum can be accessed here.
 

Conference room papers:

Parties wishing to submit conference room papers or electronic versions of statements should send them to Liazzat Rabbiosi (rabbiosi [at] un.org (rabbiosi[at]un[dot]org))
 

Delegate statements:

Parties are requested to submit their statements in advance by email to Jacqueline Nyanjui (jacqueline.nyanjui [at] un.org (jacqueline[dot]nyanjui[at]un[dot]org)) by close of business on Wednesday, 2 November 2022. The order in which statements are delivered will be determined by the date and time of their submission.
 

Room/meeting bookings:

For room bookings please contact Nadya Omar (nadya.omar [at] un.org (nadya[dot]omar[at]un[dot]org))
 

Side events and exhibitions:

The request form for side events and exhibitions is available here. The deadline for submission of applications is Friday, 23 September 2022.
 

Credentials of parties’ representatives

Rule 18 of the rules of procedure for the meetings provides that the credentials of representatives and the names of alternate representatives and advisers are to be submitted to the Executive Secretary of the meeting, if possible, no later than twenty hours after the opening of the meeting. Any later change in the composition of a delegation is also to be submitted to the Executive Secretary. Accordingly, credentials are required for participation in the online meeting and should be issued either by the Head of State or Government or by the Minister of Foreign Affairs or, in the case of a regional economic integration organization, by the competent authority of that organization. In view of the meeting being held online, parties should submit the signed and scanned credentials by email to Gilbert Bankobeza (gilbert.bankobeza [at] un.org (gilbert[dot]bankobeza[at]un[dot]org)) any time before the commencement of the meeting and if possible, no later than twenty-four hours after the meeting is opened. The officers of the meeting shall thereafter examine the credentials and submit their report to the meeting. Whenever possible before or after the meeting, the original copies of credentials may be forwarded to the Secretariat through diplomatic channels or by mail.