International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer September 16 was designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. This designation had been made on December 19, 2000, in commemoration of the date, in 1987, on which nations signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. In 1994, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The closure
Protocol (politics) Discrimination against Women is supplemented by an Optional Protocol. Protocol (politics) Protocol can mean any logbook or other artifact (forged or authentic) of a political meeting between persons from different nations. The most notorious example of a forged logbook is "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". In international law, a treaty that supplements or adds to a pre-existing treaty is often given a name that includes "Protocol" in its title. For example, the Kyoto Protocol was supplemental to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Protocol I, Protocol II, and Protocol III supplement the 1949 Geneva Conventions; and