Decision 56/9

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the verification and progress reports on the implementation of the national CFC phase-out plan (NPP) for Argentina, and to approve the annual implementation programme for 2008-2009 with a proviso requesting the Government of Argentina and UNIDO to ensure that future verification would include the country’s monitoring of its activities under the Agreement through the monitoring institutions defined in Appendix 5 A to the Agreement;
2. To note the progress report on the implementation of the terminal phase-out management plan (TPMP) for Bhutan, as well as the annual implementation plan for 2008-2009;
3. To note the 2008 progress report on the accelerated phase-out of CFCs and halons in China and to encourage China to continue its efforts to monitor closely the import and export of ODS and the illegal trade and production of ODS, thus contributing to the compliance effort in the region and globally;
4. To note the progress report on the implementation of the NPP for Colombia, covering the 2007-2008 period, and to approve the annual implementation programme for 2009;
5. To note the successful verification of Croatia's compliance in 2007 with its phase-out obligations for CFC consumption under the TPMP;
6. To note the progress report on the implementation of the TPMP for Ghana in 2008 and to approve the annual implementation programme for 2009;
7. To note the progress report on the implementation of the project on technology transfer leading to methyl bromide phase-out in soil fumigation in Kenya in 2008 and to approve the annual implementation programme for 2009, requesting the Government of Germany and UNIDO to assist the Government of Kenya to strengthen current ODS regulations to ban controlled uses of methyl bromide once the project had been completed;
8. To note the verification and progress reports on the implementation of the NPP for Mexico and to approve the annual implementation programme for 2008-2009, requesting UNIDO to ensure that a verification of the country’s monitoring of its activities was carried out as part of future verifications, as specified in paragraph 6 of the Agreement approved by decision 42/32;
9. With regard to the sector plan for phasing out CFC-11 and CFC-12 in the production sector for Mexico:
   1. To commend the Government of Mexico and UNIDO on their good efforts to comply with decision 47/29 and for successfully implementing the audits in 2007 and 2008 to confirm the sustained cessation of CFC production at the Quimobásicos plant in Mexico;
   2. To agree that the 2007 verification would be the final exercise to be undertaken by UNIDO; and
   3. To request the National Ozone Office to maintain monitoring of the CFC production closure at the Quimobásicos Plant as part of the effort to sustain the national CFC phase-out plan in future years.