Decision 87/57

87th Meeting of the Executive Committee
July 2021
China
World Bank
Production approvals and reports | ODS production (excluding HCFCs)

The Executive Committee decided:

  1. To take note of the final document on the investigation of HCFC feedstock applications in China for 2014 to 2018, submitted by the Government of China, through the World Bank;
  2. To request the Government of China, through the World Bank, to inform the Executive Committee if any of the HCFC production lines previously verified as being vertically integrated through a pipe to the downstream facility had changed its method of transporting some or all of the HCFCs to the downstream facility;
  3. To request the World Bank to include, in the annual independent HCFC production verifications submitted under the HCFC production phase-down management plan, all newly established HCFC production lines for feedstock use if they had been verified as not being vertically integrated with their downstream production facility, noting that the Executive Committee could consider, on a case-by-case basis, whether any additional funding would be required for such verification;
  4. That the Executive Committee would consider the definition of“vertically integrated facilities”, at its 88th meeting, in the context of its discussions on the draft guidelines and the standard format used for the verification of ODS production phase-out (decision 86/97);
  5. To note that the Government of China would:
    1. Ensure that, in its data reporting under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol, starting in 2021, all HCFCs produced in a given year would be reported as produced that year, irrespective of when the HCFC was used, in line with the Article 7 data reporting instructions and guidelines approved by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in decision XXX/10;
    2. Review the approach used to report production of HCFC-133a and CFC-113a under Article 7 to strengthen its data reporting and, through the World Bank, report to the Executive Committee the outcomes of that review at the Executive Committee meeting in June 2022; and
  6. To request the Government of China, through the World Bank, to provide the outcome of the Government’s review of HCFC production reported under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol for 2014 and 2015 to the 88th meeting.