Decision 51/29

Following a discussion on whether to reconfirm the CTC consumption ceiling at its 52nd or 53rd Meeting, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To take note of the verification report of CTC production and consumption for process agent applications in Phase I of the China CTC sector plan for 2006;
2. To release the 2007 annual tranche of US $5 million and US $375,000 in support costs for the implementation of the 2007 work programme of Phase I of the sector plan as the verification indicated that China met the criteria in the agreement on Phase I of the sector plan in 2006;
3. To take note of the results of the survey by the World Bank of CTC consumption in process agent applications listed in Table A-bis of decision XVII/8 of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties and in potential process agent applications which had been newly identified and reviewed by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) but had yet to be considered by the Parties for inclusion in the list of controlled substances as process agents, in accordance with decision X/14 of the Tenth Meeting of the Parties;
4. To consider the need to reconfirm the ceiling of 14,300 ODP tonnes set in the agreement for those applications at the 52^nd Meeting of the Executive Committee; and
5. To request the World Bank to provide reasons for over 1,496.1 ODP tonnes of CTC production not accounted for in the results of the verification of CTC production and consumption for process agent uses in 2006 in Phase I as part of the verification of CTC consumption in Phase II of the sector plan due for the 52^nd Meeting.