The Executive Committee, noting the recommendation of the Sub-Committee (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/5, para. 12), decided:
(a) To take note of decision VII/3 of the Seventh Meeting of the Parties to control HCFCs and to note further that projects involving conversion to HCFCs should be considered in the light of that decision, as well as other relevant factors;
(b) That in the future, in cases where conversion to HCFCs was recommended, the implementing agencies should be requested to provide a full explanation of the reasons why such conversion was recommended, together with supporting documentation that the criteria laid down by the Executive Committee for transitional substances had been met, and should make it clear that the enterprises concerned had agreed to bear the cost of subsequent conversion to non-HCFC substances; and
(c) To request the Secretariat to prepare for examination by the Executive Committee at its Twentieth Meeting a paper on:
(i) The historical background to HCFC conversion projects;
(ii) What information on alternatives to HCFCs had been provided by the implementing agencies to the applicant countries, and how that information had been received and acted upon; and
(iii) The justifications given for the choice of one technology over another.