Following the report and subsequent discussion, the Executive Committee decided:
- To release the 2006 tranche of the CTC sector plan (phase I) of US $16 million and the associated support costs of US $1.2 million to the World Bank, given satisfaction with the process and procedure reported by the State Environment Protection Agency on conducting verifications of CTC feedstock applications for non-ODS chemicals and new process agent applications;
- To approve the revision of the maximum allowable CTC production target in the 2006 annual work programme of the CTC sector plan (phase I) to 28,618 ODP tonnes; and
- To request the World Bank to provide an update in its 2007 annual work programme on the further actions to be taken to reduce the emission level for chlorosulphonated polyefin (CSM) at Jilin Chemical, in view of the lack of success so far.