Vietnam targets to eliminate all imports and use of CFC chemicals by 2010 as part of the country's efforts to protect the ozone layer, said Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Cong Thanh at a seminar held in Hanoi on Oct. 9.

The conference, entitled "Vietnamese Freezing and Air-condition Sector- Current Status and Development", was held to evaluate the sector's activities relating to consultancy works and social assessment in protecting the ozone layer in line with the Montreal Protocol.

The Ministry of Trade in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment have put restrictions on the imports of CFCs (Trichlorofluromethane) since August 2005, and planned to put an end to licensing the imports of these chemicals as of January, 2010.

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Source: VNA