Definitions for "Montreal Protocol"
In March 1985, an international treaty, the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, was agreed. Following agreement that concrete measures were required to curb the increasing use of ozone depleting substances, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (http://www.unep.ch/ozone/montreal.shtml) was finalised in September 1987. The Protocol has been signed by over 165 countries, including Australia. The Montreal Protocol sets out a mandatory timetable for the phase out of ozone depleting substances.
An intergovernmental document signed by many countries in 1987 (and regularly revised) which established restrictions for the manufacture and use of ozone-depleting substances in an international effort to reduce ozone depletion. (The text of the Protocol with the 1990 and 1992 amendments is available).
An international agreement limiting the production and consumption of chemicals that deplete the stratospheric ozone layer, including CFCs, Halons, HCFCs, HBFCs, methyl bromide and others. Signed in 1987, the Protocol commits Parties to take measures to protect the ozone layer by freezing, reducing or ending production and consumption of controlled substances. This agreement is the protocol to the Vienna convention.