Decision 54/36

Following a discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the understanding between the Government of Brazil and the Executive Committee that the project “Phase-out of carbon tetrachloride as process agent in two applications at Braskem” would be the last phase-out project for the consumption of carbon tetrachloride (CTC) in Brazil, and that no further funding for phase-out of CTC consumption in Brazil would be sought from the Multilateral Fund;
2. To note the commitment of the Government of Brazil:
   1. For those process agent applications approved to date by the Meeting of the Parties to limit the consumption to zero tonnes of CTC, with the exception of an annual consumption of up to 2 ODP tonnes per year up to and including 2013 for the Braskem Maceio Chlorine-Alkali plant for the process agent application“Elimination of NCl3 in chlor-alkali production”, as included as application number 1 in the list approved by the Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties;
   2. To ensure collection of the necessary data for an assessment of the CTC streams in the Braskem Maceio Chlorine-Alkaline plant on the basis of a mass balance;
   3. To monitor the collection and subsequent destruction of CTC drained from the NCl3 removal application at the Braskem Maceio Chlorine-Alkaline plant, and to ensure that, except for minor filling losses, destruction of the whole amount was being carried out;
   4. To monitor that the on-line destruction facility, i.e. the on-site incinerator described in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/54/24, was on line for at least 97 per cent of the production time, during which at least 97 per cent of the production occurred;
   5. To report the resulting data regarding the amounts of CTC destroyed, as well as the import of CTC for that application to the Ozone Secretariat annually as part of the reporting of Article 7 data;
3. To request the Fund Secretariat to inform the Ozone Secretariat of the present decision and, in particular, its sub-paragraph (b)(i);
4. To note that approval of the project would not create a precedent for providing retroactive funding for uses of ODS defined as process agents by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol; and
5. To approve the project for the “Phase-out of carbon tetrachloride as process agent in two applications at Braskem”, at the amount of US $1,178,554, with associated support costs of US $88,392 for UNDP.