Decision 80/29

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the progress report on the ongoing chiller projects submitted by the Government of France and Japan and UNDP and the World Bank;
2. With respect to the strategic demonstration project for accelerated conversion of CFC chillers in five African countries (AFR/REF/48/DEM/35):
   1. To approve the extension, on an exceptional basis, of the project completion date to April 2018;
   2. To request the Governments of France and Japan to submit the project completion report no later than October 2018 and the final report to the 82^nd meeting, and to return fund balances no later than April 2019; and
3. To reiterate decision 79/19(b)(ii), requesting bilateral and implementing agencies to submit project completion reports no later than June 2018 and to return fund balances no later than December 2018, for all chiller projects except the global chiller project (GLO/REF/47/DEM/268) implemented by the World Bank, for which the project completion report should be submitted no later than December 2018 and fund balances returned no later than June 2019.