The Executive Committee decided:
- To approve in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Nepal for the period 2010-2020, at the amount of US $234,030, comprising US $126,000, and agency support costs of US $16,380 for UNEP and US $84,000 and agency support costs of US $7,560 for UNDP, on the understanding that by the time of the Twenty-third Meeting of the Parties Nepal would have:
- Officially deposited its instrument of ratification of the Copenhagen Amendment to the Montreal Protocol with the United Nations Treaty Depository Office in New York;
or
- submitted an official request to the Twenty-third Meeting of the Parties to be considered under Article 4, paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Montreal Protocol, which inter alia allows a State not Party to an amendment nevertheless to be found by the Meeting of the Parties to be in full compliance with the control provisions of the Montreal Protocol, thereby obviating the trade sanctions that might otherwise apply;
- That if one of the conditions in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) above had been met, the Government of Nepal would submit a request to the Executive Committee for the first tranche of the HPMP and present the corresponding Agreement between the Government of Nepal and the Executive Committee; and
- To note that the Government of Nepal had agreed at the 62nd meeting to establish as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption the official consumption ceiling set by the country of 1.27 ODP tonnes, and not based on 2009 or 2010 estimated consumption;