Montreal Protocol: 1. Compliance with annual reporting requirements for production and consumption of controlled substances under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol; 2. Submission of information on Licensing systems under (Article 4B of) the Montreal Protocol; 3. For each party, a percentage value is assigned to indicate how much of the required information has been submitted.

The Montreal Protocol requires, under its Article 7, that each Party provides to the Secretariat for each controlled substance statistical data on its annual production, amounts used for feedstocks, amounts destroyed by technologies approved by the Parties, imports from and exports to Parties and non-Parties respectively and amount of the controlled substance listed in Annex E used for quarantine and pre- shipment applications, for the year during which provisions concerning those substances entered into force for that Party and for each year thereafter. Each Party shall also provide to the Secretariat statistical data on its annual emissions of trifluoromethane (HFC-23) per facility. The calculation of control levels is provided in Article 3 of the Protocol. This reporting enables monitoring of the implementation of the Protocol, and compliance with the control measures under the protocol. Additionally, under Article 4B, each party is required to establish and implement a system for licensing the import and export of new, used, recycled and reclaimed controlled substances. Each Party is required, within three months of the date of introducing its licensing system, to report to the Secretariat on the establishment and operation of that system.

Montreal Protocol: Under the Montreal Protocol, the role of the Secretariat is stipulated in Article 12 of the Protocol including the obligation to receive data provided pursuant to Article 7. Additionally, under Article 4B, each Party is required, within three months of the date of introducing its licensing system, to report to the Secretariat on the establishment and operation of that system. Compliance of the Parties with their reporting obligations is considered by an Implementation Committee established under the Protocol’s Non-Compliance Procedure and is determined by the Meeting of the Parties based on the Committee’s recommendations (https://ozone.unep.org/list-of-implementation- committee-recommendations).

Montreal Protocol: 1. Compliance with annual reporting requirements for production and consumption of controlled substances under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol (15 points per report); 2. Submission of information on Licensing systems under (Article 4B of) the Montreal Protocol (5 points).

Under the Montreal Protocol, the Secretariat does not carry out any validation, other than simple completeness and consistency checks which are communicated back to the reporting party. There is no consultation with countries on the national data submitted to the SDGs Indicators Database.