| A review of exports of bulk halon should be called for with a view to banning exports earlier than 31 December 2009, if appropriate. |
| Oh, and halon was banned for environmental reasons, not because it smothers people. |
| It was at first assumed that there had been an engine room fire and that the halon smothering gas had selfreleased and extinguished the fire. |
| This should ensure that progress is made in reducing the quantity of halon for critical uses and thereby accelerate recovery of the ozone layer. |
| Any equipment containing halon that is not listed in Annex VII is therefore deemed noncritical. |
| It is a chain reaction, which ends in thousands of ozone molecules being destroyed by just one halon compound. |
