The Executive Committee decided:
- To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) for the period 2011 to 2020, at the amount of US $1,696,000, plus agency support costs of US $220,480 for UNEP, with the individual amounts approved for each country listed in Annex X to the present report;
- To note that each of the Governments of the PICs had agreed to establish individual estimated baselines as their starting points for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption calculated using actual consumption reported for 2009 and estimated consumption for 2010, with a total aggregate baseline of 3.25 ODP tonnes (59.11 metric tonnes), as indicated below:
| Country | 2009 actual consumption (mt) | 2010 estimated consumption (mt) | Estimated baseline | |
| Metric tonnes | ODP tonnes | |||
| Cook Islands (the) | 0.570 | 1.820 | 1.195 | 0.066 |
| Kiribati | 0.680 | 2.190 | 1.435 | 0.079 |
| Marshall Islands (the) | 3.480 | 4.500 | 3.990 | 0.219 |
Micronesia (Federated States of) | 1.640 | 3.000 | 2.320 | 0.128 |
| Nauru | 0.100 | 0.500 | 0.300 | 0.017 |
| Niue | - | 0.300 | 0.150 | 0.008 |
| Palau | 2.040 | 3.880 | 2.960 | 0.163 |
| Samoa | 3.500 | 4.260 | 3.880 | 0.213 |
| Solomon Islands | 28.280 | 41.000 | 34.640 | 1.905 |
| Tonga | 0.010 | 2.670 | 1.340 | 0.074 |
| Tuvalu | 1.590 | 1.620 | 1.605 | 0.088 |
| Vanuatu | 1.460 | 9.100 | 5.280 | 0.290 |
- To approve the draft Agreement* between the Governments of the PICs and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex XXI to the present report;
- To request the Fund Secretariat, once the countries’ baseline data were known, to update Appendix 2-A to the Agreement to include the figures for maximum allowable consumption, and to notify the Executive Committee of the resulting change in the levels of maximum allowable consumption and of any potential related impact on the eligible funding levels, with any adjustments needed being made when the next tranches were submitted; and
- To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for the PICs, and the corresponding implementation plan, at the amount of US $873,375, plus agency support costs of US $113,539 for UNEP.
- This Agreement was revised as per Decision 74/23