Decision 75/62

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The progress report on the implementation of the second tranche of the HCFC phase‑out management plan (HPMP) in Maldives;
   2. That equipment used by some enterprises in the fisheries sector had been retrofitted to R-438A as an alternative refrigerant on an interim basis;
   3. That those enterprises would, at their own cost, convert to an alternative with low‑global warming potential (GWP) when it was commercially available and technically feasible;
2. To request UNDP to continue assisting the Government of Maldives during implementation of its HPMP in identifying low-GWP alternatives for the fisheries sector;
3. To request UNDP to report to the Executive Committee, at the first meeting in 2017 and every year thereafter until another technology with a low-GWP had been fully introduced, on the status of use of the interim technology selected by the Government, including the availability of low-GWP refrigerants in the market and the potential use of recycled HCFC-22 from the recovery and recycling component of the HPMP, with a review by the Secretariat of the selected approach in 2019; and
4. To approve the third tranche of the HPMP for Maldives, and the corresponding 2016-2017 tranche implementation plans, in the amount of US $100,660, plus agency support costs of US $13,086 for UNEP.