Pursuant to decisions 63/14 and 63/15, the Executive Committee decided:
- To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic for the period 2011 to 2020, at the amount of US $237,300, comprising US $176,250, plus agency support costs of US $22,913 for UNEP, and US $33,750, plus agency support costs of US $4,388 for the Government of France;
- To note that the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic had agreed to establish an estimated baseline of 1.8 ODP tonnes as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption, calculated using actual consumption of 1.2 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 and consumption of 2.33 ODP tonnes estimated for 2010, plus 3.2 ODP tonnes of HCFC-141b contained in imported pre-blended polyol systems, resulting in 5.0 ODP tonnes;
- To approve the draft Agreement* between the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex I to the present report
- To request the Fund Secretariat, once the 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 levels of maximum allowable consumption and of any potential related impact on the eligible funding level, with any adjustments needed being made when the next tranche was submitted;
- To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and the corresponding implementation plan, at the amount of US $128,396, comprising US $113,625, plus agency support costs of US $14,771 for UNEP; and
- To allow the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to submit the foam sector plan for phasing out the HCFC-141b contained in imported pre-blended polyol in 2015.
- This Agreement was revised as per Decision 74/23