Decision 71/10

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the report on chiller projects submitted by UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/71/6/Add.1 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/71/6/Corr.1;
2. To request UNIDO:
   1. To financially complete the ODS phase-out project for 50 existing centrifugal chiller units in Côte d'Ivoire, approved at the 37^th meeting for the Government of France and transferred to UNIDO at the 51^st meeting by the end of 2013, and to return the remaining balances to the 72^nd meeting, while noting that a number of CFC chillers had been replaced by the country without assistance from the Multilateral Fund;
   2. To financially complete the regional European demonstration project on the replacement of CFC centrifugal chillers in Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia approved at the 47th meeting, no later than the last meeting in 2014, to return any remaining balances no later than the last meeting in 2014, and to submit the project completion report (PCR) no later than the first meeting in 2015;
   3. To financially complete the demonstration project on the replacement of CFC centrifugal chillers in the Syrian Arab Republic approved at the 47^th meeting, by the end of 2013, to return any remaining balances to the 72^nd meeting, and to submit the PCR no later than the 73^rd meeting;
3. To request UNDP:
   1. With regard to the demonstration project for integrated management of the centrifugal chiller sub-sector, focusing on application of energy efficient CFC‑free technologies for replacement of CFC-based chillers in Brazil, approved at the 47^th meeting:
      1. To submit annual progress reports on the status of implementation in line with decision 68/8(c);
      2. To financially complete the project and return any remaining balances no later than the last meeting in 2017;
      3. To submit the PCR no later than the first meeting in 2018;
   2. With regard to the demonstration project for integrated management of the centrifugal chiller sub-sector, focusing on application of energy efficient CFC‑free technologies for replacement of CFC-based chillers in Colombia, approved at the 47^th meeting:
      1. To submit annual progress reports on the status of implementation in line with decision 68/8(c);
      2. To financially complete the project and return any remaining balances no later than the last meeting in 2017;
      3. To submit the PCR no later than the first meeting in 2018;
4. With regard to the strategic demonstration project for accelerated conversion of CFC chillers in five African countries (Cameroon, Egypt, Namibia, Nigeria and Sudan), approved at the 48^th meeting, for implementation by the Governments of France, Germany and Japan and UNIDO:
   1. To request UNIDO and the Government of Germany to financially complete the project and return any remaining balances no later than the last meeting in 2014;
   2. To request the Governments of France and Japan to return any remaining balances no later than the first meeting in 2015;
   3. To request the Governments of France, Germany and Japan, and UNIDO to submit the PCR no later than the first meeting in 2015;
5. To note the return to the 71^st meeting of US $3,149,056 by the World Bank from activities under the global chiller replacement project approved at the 47^th meeting as per decision 71/3(a)(ii);
6. To request the World Bank:
   1. To continue implementing the global chiller replacement project in Argentina, India and the Philippines;
   2. To submit annual progress reports on the status of implementation in line with decision 68/8(c);
   3. To financially complete the project and return any remaining balances no later than the last meeting in 2017;
   4. To submit the PCR no later than the first meeting in 2018; and
7. To request all relevant bilateral and implementing agencies to include in their respective project completion reports information on the technology chosen, as well as on energy efficiency and energy efficiency gains achieved.