Decision 88/79

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The 2019 and 2020 verification reports for the HCFC production sector in China considered by the Sub-group on the Production Sector;
   2. That the verifications referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(i) above had been undertaken virtually in the light of the coronavirus disease pandemic and that the World Bank had not yet been able to undertake the verification required by decision 86/99(e);
   3. The information contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/88/SGP/2 relevant to the updated 2018 verification report requested in decision 84/93(b) and decision 86/98(b);
2. To request the World Bank to submit to the Executive Committee at its last meeting of 2022:
   1. An addendum to the 2019 and 2020 verification reports for the HCFC production sector in China;
   2. The one-off verifications required by decision 86/99(e);
   3. An update related to the enterprise Suqian Kaier, including on the integrated nature, closure and dismantling of the HCFC-22 production line, as part of the verification of the 2021 HCFC production sector in China;
3. To request the World Bank to verify, on a one-off basis, that the newly established HCFC‑142b production line at the enterprise Zhejiang Juhua Co. Ltd was vertically integrated with the downstream facility and that all the HCFC-142b produced in the new line would be for feedstock use and to submit a report thereon to the Executive Committee at the last meeting of 2022; and
4. To request the Government of China, through the World Bank, to submit to the Executive Committee, at its last meeting of 2022, a report on the outcome of the assessment by the Government of an HCFC producer that might have exceeded its assigned 2020 quota for production of ODS for domestic use, including any measures that might have been taken under the administrative regulations in light of the findings of the assessment.