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Press
Releases - 1997 (July - December)
Applications
for HCFCs Free Quota Invited
The Environmental
Protection Department (EPD) today (Friday) invites applications
for free quotas to import 34 types ofHydrochlorofluorocarbons
(HCFCs) for local consumption in 1997.
Applications
are open to all companies which have registered under the
Ozone Layer Protection Ordinance. Allocations will be made
on a need basis.
Principal
Environmental Protection Officer, Mr Raymond Leung, said:
"According to the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer,
the HCFCs quotas for Hong Kong in 1997 should be capped at
2,526 tonnes.
"Forty
per cent of the total available quotas for this year are allocated
as free quotas in two phases.
"Half
of these were distributed in the Phase I free quota allocation
exercise in January this year while the remaining ones will
be allocated in this exercise."
Mr Leung
said this quota system had been introduced to fulfil Hong
Kong's international obligations under the Protocol.
"Hong
Kong's consumption of HCFCs would be reduced in phases to
zero by the year 2030 according to the schedule of the Protocol,"
he added.
Applications
for the Phase II free quotas should be submitted in person
to EPD's Air Management Group, 33rd floor, Revenue Tower,
5 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong by 5 pm on August 15,
1997.
Application
forms are available at the above address. Late applications
will not be accepted.
For further
details, please contact the above Group at 2594 6242 or 2594
6243.
End/Friday,
July 18, 1997
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