Decision 20/48

October 1996
General before adjustments to the Montreal Protocol on HCFCs

The Executive Committee, having considered the Secretariat’s report on the application of hydrochlorofluorocarbons in projects funded by the Multilateral Fund (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/69) and the recommendation of the Sub-Committee on Project Review (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/5, para. 59), decided:

(a) To take note with appreciation of the Secretariat’s report;

(b) To request the implementing agencies to ensure that adequate information on all alternative technologies was provided to enterprises converting from CFCs;

(c) To reaffirm paragraph (b) of its decision 19/2 which stated that, 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.