Decision 51/11

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To take note of the findings presented in the final report on the evaluation of CTC phase-out projects and agreements (document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/51/12);
2. To request the World Bank to continue to provide a summary of China’s CTC consumption data under CTC sector plan, Phase I and II in tentative form to the first Executive Committee meeting of the year, and in a final form to the second meeting of the year;
3. To request China, in cooperation with the Ozone Secretariat, the Fund Secretariat, and the World Bank, to clarify the baselines for CTC production and consumption and to report back to the Executive Committee as soon as possible;
4. To request implementing agencies to update the information on alternatives to CTC, especially in the solvent sector, avoiding as much as possible the use of trade names and of potentially carcinogenic solvents;
5. To request UNEP to organize discussions in regional network meetings about the possibility of voluntary agreements between CTC exporting and importing countries under which CTC exporting enterprises, prior to shipment, would have to request certificates from their importing clients that they had either verified feedstock use or had a valid import licence under the importing country's quota system, bearing in mind that decision VII/30 of the Seventh Meeting of the Parties required importers to provide exporters with a commitment that controlled substances imported for the purpose of being used entirely as feedstock in the manufacture of other chemicals should be used for that purpose only, and that importing Parties report the volumes of controlled ODS imported for that purpose to the Ozone Secretariat;
6. To recommend to CTC producers in India that they use a precautionary approach to CTC management by installing destruction facilities, if not yet available, in case the feedstock outlets, essentially for DV acid chloride, should not grow as expected or would be squeezed by increasing CTC imports;
7. To take into account in future deliberations on the funding of institutional strengthening projects the need to maintain monitoring and verification of all CTC production and consumption beyond 2010; and
8. To request the Fund Secretariat to forward to the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP), via the Ozone Secretariat, the final report on the evaluation of CTC phase-out projects and agreements (document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/51/12) so that it could be taken into account in the TEAP’s further deliberations on process agents.