38- وقال إنه لا يجب الخلط بين الاستجابة التي حظيت "المشار إليها" وبين الترشيحات التي لم تستطع اللجنة الاستجابة لها بسبب عدم تقديم الطرف المرشِح للمعلومات الضرورية لتمكين اللجنة من تقييم الترشيح في ضوء أحكام المقرر 9/6، حيث تتمثل الاستجابة في "لا يستطيع التقييم".
The “noted” response was not to be confused with nominations to which the Committee was unable to respond because the necessary information had not been provided by the nominating Party to enable it to evaluate the nomination in the terms of decision IX/6, where the response was “unable to evaluate” Purely positive and negative responses in the terms of decision IX/6 were “recommended” and “unable to recommend” The Committee and Panel recommended that critical-use exemptions should be granted on an annual basis only as the situation in respect of the availability of alternatives was evolving rapidly and multi--year exemptions might therefore serve as a possible disincentive to making the change to alternatives as soon as they became available.