Decision 64/10

64th Meeting of the Executive Committee
July 2011
Algeria | Armenia | Benin | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Chad | Chile | China | Côte d'Ivoire | Croatia | Ecuador | Egypt | Ethiopia | Gabon | Guatemala | Iraq | Kenya | Lebanon | Libya | Madagascar | Malawi | Morocco | Nigeria | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Serbia | Sudan | Syrian Arab Republic | Togo | Tunisia | Türkiye | Turkmenistan | Yemen
UNIDO
UNIDO progress reports

The Executive Committee decided:

  1. To note UNIDO’s progress report contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/64/13;
  2. With respect to the development of HCFC phase-out management plans (HPMPs), to monitor the situation in countries experiencing political difficulties such as the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia and Yemen;
  3. To request the submission of additional status reports to the 65th meeting on the following projects owing to low rates of disbursement of approved funds in multi‑year agreements (MYAs):
    1. Methyl bromide (MB) project in Chile (CHI/FUM/60/INV/171);
    2. MB project in Guatemala (GUA/FUM/59/INV/38);
    3. CFC phase-out plan in Ecuador (ECU/PHA/61/INV/47, 49, and 51);
  4. To request the submission of additional status reports to the 65th meeting on the following projects in order to ascertain whether the project document/grant agreement had been signed:
    1. Terminal phase-out management plan (TPMP) in Burundi (BDI/PHA/62/INV/27);
    2. MB project in Iraq (IRQ/FUM/62/INV/13);
  5. To request the submission of additional status reports to the 65th meeting on the following projects in order to ascertain whether the project document/memorandum of understanding/grant agreement had been signed, whether an action plan had been established or whether any activities had been conducted for the following HPMPs or HCFC projects:
    1. Burkina Faso (BKF/PHA/62/INV/30);
    2. Chad (CHD/PHA/62/INV/22);
    3. Egypt (EGY/FOA/62/INV/104, 109, and 110);
    4. Gabon (GAB/PHA/62/INV/27);
    5. Madagascar (MAG/PHA/62/INV/22);
    6. Malawi (MLW/PHA/62/INV/32);
    7. Morocco (MOR/FOA/62/INV/67);
    8. Saudi Arabia (SAU/FOA/62/INV/11 and SAU/FOA/62/INV/13);
    9. Serbia (YUG/PHA/62/INV/38);
    10. Sudan (the) (SUD/FOA/62/INV/28);
    11. Syrian Arab Republic (SYR/REF/62/INV/103);
    12. Turkey (TUR/FOA/62/INV/97);
    13. Turkmenistan (TKM/PHA/62/INV/08);
    14. Togo (TOG/PHA/62/INV/22);
  6. To request the submission of additional status reports to the 65th meeting in order to monitor:
    1. The signing of the project document for the institutional strengthening projects in Armenia (ARM/SEV/62/INS/08) and Qatar (QAT/SEV/59/INS/15);
    2. The completion of the selection of national experts for the MB demonstration project in Algeria and Tunisia (AFR/FUM/54/DEM/40);
    3. The status of bidding for the Al Hadi foam project in Iraq (IRQ/FOA/57/INV/06);
    4. The resumption of activities at the company for the HCFC phase-out foam project in Croatia (CRO/FOA/59/INV/34);
    5. Project preparation if projects were not submitted to the 65th meeting, for:
      1. The MB activities in Algeria (ALG/FUM/34/PRP/50), Ethiopia (ETH/FUM/54/PRP/18), Kenya (KEN/FUM/60/PRP/50) and Tunisia (TUN/FUM/33/PRP/41);
      2. The ODS disposal demonstration projects in China (CPR/DES/59/PRP/494), Lebanon (LEB/DES/61/PRP/72), Nigeria (NIR/DES/60/PRP/126) and Turkey (TUR/DES/57/PRP/92);
    6. Chiller projects in the Europe and Central Asia region with respect to the reallocation of the supplied chiller in Serbia to another beneficiary (EUR/REF/47/DEM/06); in the Syrian Arab Republic on the status of bidding (SYR/REF/47/DEM/93); and in Côte d’Ivoire on the status of the concept to implement the project (IVC/REF/57/INV/32);
    7. The status of conversion of existing production lines for the metered-dose inhaler (MDI) project in China (CPR/ARS/56/INV/473), including information on those enterprises with conversion projects that were adopting existing technologies and those that were developing their own formulations;
    8. The completion of the training project component for the carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform project in Kenya (KEN/SOL/57/TAS/47);
    9. The selection of a facility for testing for the refrigeration sector terminal project in Algeria (ALG/REF/44/INV/62);
  7. To request the submission of additional status reports to the 65th meeting in order to respond to the Secretariat’s questions with respect to:
    1. The agreement on working arrangements and the contracts agreed for the HCFC demonstration projects in China (CPR/REF/61/DEM/502 and CPR/REF/61/DEM/503);
    2. The equipment delivery in the TPMP in Benin (BEN/PHA/59/INV/23);
    3. The training of operators and the“operationalization” of the recovery and recycling system in the TPMP in Ecuador (ECU/PHA/61/INV/47, 49, and 51); and
  8. To note that UNIDO would report to the 65th meeting on up to seven projects with implementation delays, including two projects that had been classified as such in 2009.