Decision 65/42

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Morocco for the period 2011 to 2017 to reduce HCFC consumption by 20 per cent of the baseline, at the amount of US $335,000, plus agency support costs of US $25,125 for UNIDO, and to note that the project to phase out 11.00 ODP tonnes of HCFC-141b used in the manufacture of polyurethane rigid insulation foam for domestic refrigerators at Manar Company at the amount of US $951,740, plus agency support costs of US $71,381 for UNIDO, had already been approved at the 62^nd meeting and had 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 Morocco amounts to US $1,286,740, plus agency support costs of US $96,506.
3. To note that the Government of Morocco had agreed to establish as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption the consumption of 68.00 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol, which were the latest data available when the HCFC phase-out project for Manar Company had been approved at the 62^nd meeting;
4. To note the deduction of 11.00 ODP tonnes of HCFCs from the starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption for the project approved at the 62^nd meeting, and to deduct a further 5.77 ODP tonnes of HCFCs for implementation of stage I of the HPMP;
5. To note that approval of stage I of the HPMP did not prevent Morocco from submitting, prior to 2015, a proposal to achieve a reduction in HCFC consumption greater than that proposed in stage I of the HPMP;
6. To approve the draft Agreement* between the Government of Morocco and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex XXVIII to the present document; and
7. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Morocco, and the corresponding implementation plan, at the amount of US $80,000, plus agency support costs of US $6,000 for UNIDO.

• This Agreement was revised as per Decision 83/57