Decision 65/37

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for the Dominican Republic for the period 2011 to 2015 to meet the 10 per cent reduction in HCFC consumption, at the amount of US $1,468,459, consisting of US $1,313,450, plus agency support costs of US $98,509 for UNDP, and US $50,000, plus agency support costs of US $6,500 for UNEP; and to note that the project to phase out 3.74 ODP tonnes of HCFC-141b used in the polyurethane rigid insulation foam for the manufacture of commercial refrigerators at FARCO, at the amount of US $332,775, plus agency support costs of US $24,958 for UNDP had already been approved at the 61^st meeting and had subsequently been included in stage I of the HPMP;
2. To note that with the amounts referred to in paragraph (a) above, the total funding for stage I of the HPMP for Dominican Republic amounts to US $1,696,225, plus agency support costs of US $129,967.
3. To note that the Government of the Dominican Republic had agreed to establish as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption the baseline of 51.20 ODP tonnes, calculated using actual consumption of 48.49 ODP tonnes and 53.92 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 and 2010, respectively, under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol plus the 2007-2009 average amount of HCFC-141b contained in imported preblended polyols of 19.51 ODP tonnes, resulting in 70.71 ODP tonnes;
4. To note the commitment of the Government of the Dominican Republic to ban imports of HCFC-141b, both pure and contained in pre-blended polyols, no later than 1 January 2016;
5. To note the deduction of 3.74 ODP tonnes of HCFCs from the starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption for one project approved at the 61^st meeting, and to deduct a further 23.40 ODP tonnes of HCFCs for the implementation of stage I of the HPMP;
6. To approve the draft Agreement between the Government of the Dominican Republic and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex XXIII to the present document; and
7. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for the Dominican Republic, and the corresponding implementation plan, at the amount of US $759,250, consisting of US $680,000, plus agency support costs of US $51,000 for UNDP, and US $25,000, plus agency support costs of US $3,250 for UNEP.