The Executive Committee decided:
- To note the updated verification report on HCFC consumption for 2016 to 2019 for Sri Lanka, submitted by UNDP and contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/86/21/Add.2;
- To note also:
- That the Government of Sri Lanka had initiated actions to revise its country programme and Article 7 data reports for 2016 and 2017 in accordance with the verified consumption;
- With concern that the HCFC consumption in 2016 in Sri Lanka exceeded the target under the Montreal Protocol and the maximum allowable consumption set in the Agreement between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Executive Committee for that year, by 0.23 ODP tonnes (4.18 metric tonnes);
- That the Government of Sri Lanka had undertaken the necessary steps to return to compliance as noted in the verified consumption for 2017 to 2019, which showed that the country was in compliance;
- That the Government was committed to ensuring that the malpractice in imports did not recur in the future by strengthening the reporting mechanism between the national ozone unit and the Customs Authorities and appropriate enforcement adjustments;
- To apply, to the first tranche of stage II of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Sri Lanka, a reduction in funding as per paragraph 11 and Appendix 7-A of the Agreement between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Executive Committee for stage I of the HPMP, calculated at US $2,500 for each metric tonne of HCFC consumption over the maximum allowable consumption limit, resulting in a penalty of US $11,463, consisting of US $6,270, plus agency support costs of US $470 for UNDP, and US $4,180, plus agency support costs of US $543 for UNEP;
- To request the Treasurer to release the hitherto withheld funding approved for the first tranche of stage II of the HPMP for Sri Lanka, in the amount of US $458,238, consisting of US $216,200, plus agency support costs of US $15,134 for UNDP, and US $200,800, plus agency support costs of US $26,104 for UNEP, taking into account sub-paragraph (c) above.