The Executive Committee decided:
- To approve, in principle, the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, at the amount of US $1,030,000, plus agency support costs of US $77,250 for UNIDO;
- To approve the Agreement* between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex VIII to the present report;
- Regarding institutional strengthening (IS):
- To include in the approval funding for IS until 2020;
- To request the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia not to submit a funding request for IS outside the HPMP Agreement until the end of the last year mentioned in Appendix 2-A to the Agreement;
- To approve the starting point proposed by the country, which was the baseline consumption and was therefore presently a non-quantifiable amount;
- To request the Secretariat, once the baseline data was known, to update Appendix 1-A to the Agreement with the information related to the starting point and Appendix 2-A to the Agreement with the figures for the maximum allowable consumption, and to notify the Executive Committee of the starting point and the resulting levels of maximum allowable consumption accordingly;
- To approve the first annual implementation plan for 2010, and the first tranche of the HPMP for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at the amount of US $15,000, plus agency support costs of US $1,125 for UNIDO;
- To allow the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to submit to the Executive Committee at a future Meeting for subsequent inclusion in its HPMP funding requests for activities related to:
- Phase-out of the use of HCFC-141b in pre-blended polyols;
- Disposal of ODS; and
- To note with appreciation the commitment by the Government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to reduce the consumption of HCFCs by 35 per cent from the future calculated baseline by the year 2020.
- This Agreement was revised as per Decision 67/26