Provides step-by-step guidance on fulfilling the annual reporting requirements under the latest amendments to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on ozone depleting substances (ODS). Data are intended particularly as a tool for securing assistance by developing nations, as well as aiding decision makers in all participant countries devise realistic control/phase-out strategies. Includes the required forms; approved destruction processes; a summary chart of the ozone-depleting potential of the major ODS; information on the status of Protocol ratification and identification of non-parties, and data reporting discrepancies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The first edition of Professor Yoshida’s monograph, The International Legal Régime for the Protection of the Stratosphere Ozone Layer, provided a renowned and comprehensive contemporary study of the international ozone régime. In the second revised edition, the author analyses important developments in the ozone treaty régime.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are essential drivers of sustainable economic growth in the Western Balkans and Turkey, where they make up 99% of all firms, generate 65% value added and account for 75% of employment. Nevertheless, SMEs across the region continue to face obstacles such as difficulties accessing financing, low levels of digital uptake, regulatory barriers and relatively low participation in international trade.