Decision 95/93

December 2024
China
World Bank
Production approvals and reports

The Executive Committee decided:

  1. To note the 2023 verification report of the HCFC production sector in China considered by the Sub-group on the Production Sector; 
  2. To request the World Bank to include in the 2024 HCFC production verification:
    1. An explanation of the differences between the verified 2023 HCFC production for controlled uses and that which had been reported under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol, and between the verified 2023 HCFC consumption and that reported under Article 7; 
    2. An update on the status of: 
      1. The destruction of remaining key equipment and the environmental clean-up from the HCFC-142b production line at Inner Mongolia 3F Wanhao Fluorochemical that had been dismantled; 
      2. The HCFC-22 production line at Zhejiang Pengyou Chemical Co. Plant that had been relocated to Jiangxi Province; 
      3. Zhejiang Lantian Fluoro Materials Co. (now Sinochem Lantian Fluoro Materials Co.), which had been relocated to Jiangxi Province; 
      4. The HCFC-22 production line at Jiangsu Meilan Chemical Co. Ltd. that had been relocated to Jiangxi Province to be operated by Jiujiang Jiuhong New Materials Co.;
  3. To request the World Bank to verify, on a one-off basis, that the newly established HCFC production lines listed in annex I to document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/95/SGP/2 were vertically integrated with the downstream facilities and that all HCFCs produced on those lines would be exclusively for feedstock use, and to submit a report thereon at the last Executive Committee meeting of 2025; and 
  4. To provide the World Bank, on an exceptional basis, with a one-time payment of US $30,000 for support for the undertaking of the additional one-off verifications referred to in subparagraph (c) above.