Decision 61/5

Following discussions in an informal group, facilitated by Belgium, comprising interested Committee Members, representatives of the Secretariat and the implementing agencies, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the revised consolidated business plan for the years 2010-2014 contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/61/7 and Corr.1, as adjusted, on the understanding that the costs and ODP values related to HCFCs were only indicative and did not restrict the submission of projects to those costs and values;
2. To consider, at its 62^nd Meeting, the issue of financing activities to meet the 2013 freeze target at future Executive Committee meetings as part of the project approval process;
3. For countries for which ODP values in the business plans submitted by the bilateral and implementing agencies exceeded the calculated starting point, to reduce the total ODP tonnage to reflect the calculated starting points as per decision 60/5(p)(iv) and pro-rated by agency;
4. To reduce the HCFC investment component tonnage for Colombia in Canada’s business plan to zero tonnage;
5. To remove the HCFC phase-out management plan for Sri Lanka from the World Bank’s business plan;
6. To maintain terminal phase-out management plan and national phase-out plan entries for activities initially approved in 2008 or 2009 for Burundi, Eritrea and Iraq and allow for their submission up to the 63^rd Meeting;
7. To apply the cost-effectiveness values for the foam and refrigeration sectors (converted to US $/ODP) in the category“Combined Replenishment Study and Decision 60/44(f)” in Table 1 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/61/7/Corr.1, plus a 25 per cent climate premium as provided for in decision 60/44(f)(iv), including agency fees, to the ODP tonnages in the business plans as adjusted by sub‑paragraphs (c) and (d) above for those sectors; and
8. To allocate US $22,190,000 included in the adjusted business plans of the bilateral and implementing agencies from the 2010 and 2011 business plans for HCFC investment projects in non-low-volume-consuming countries that had not yet been approved, based on the overall ratio of reductions to the values in the business plans for the years 2010 and 2011 applied equally to all relevant bilateral and implementing agencies for the 2012-2014 triennium, pro-rated by entry.