Decision 51/28

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To request the World Bank and China to intensify their efforts to achieve the targets specified in the agreement between the Government of China and the Executive Committee as a precondition for approval of the 2007 annual work programme and its associated funding tranche;
2. To specify that, for the purpose of the annual work programme for 2007 and following years under the agreement, the term “CFC phase-out contracts” would include contracts signed with the environmental pollution bureaus of either the provinces or very large municipalities. Those contracts would specify:
   1. The objective of full phase-out of CFC-11 use in the province or municipality in line with China’s commitments under the Montreal Protocol and in relevant CFC phase-out agreements;
   2. The related grant amount, the amount of phase-out to be achieved in each year, and the project duration;
   3. The related activities and their respective budgets, which should include:
      1. Introduction and enforcement of policies banning the use of CFC-11 for foam production from 1 January 2008;
      2. Training and technical assistance for the relevant local authorities;
      3. Identification of CFC-11-using enterprises in the respective area, commitments from provincial governments, and activities such as training, public awareness, surveys, monitoring, and enforcement;
      4. Visiting all registered foam enterprises in the respective area and registration of the blowing agent used;
      5. Surveys regarding CFC-11-using foam companies, polyol suppliers and CFC-11 dealers;
      6. Training and technical assistance provided by local and national foam experts to CFC-11-using enterprises in order to assist them in changing over to non-CFC-11 technologies; and
      7. Supply of CFC substitutes for formulation and trial production, where appropriate.
   4. At least 90 per cent of the funding under those contracts would be used for activities as per sub-items (b)(iii)c. to (b)(iii)g. above.
3. To specify that the phase-out under those contracts for a given year was defined as the difference between CFC-11 use in the province or municipality during the previous year minus any phase-out from any implementation activities under the Multilateral Fund funded outside the specific contract, and minus the CFC-11 use in the given year;
4. To specify that the CFC-11 use in the province or municipality in any year was determined for the period 1 January to 31 December by using the minimum of the amounts obtained through the following two methods:
   1. Sales data provided by the CFC-11 producers still producing in 2007. Those sales data should include produced quantities as well as sales of CFC-11 stocks from the CFC producers;
   2. Sales data from the larger CFC dealers in the province or municipality. For the first relevant year for which data were needed (baseline), the sales data for 2004-2006 would be reviewed and used to check the consistency of the data for the relevant year; and
5. To request the World Bank to submit a report on the implementation of the 2007 tranche to the last meeting of the Executive Committee in 2008.