Decision 67/28

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Somalia for the period 2012 to 2020 to reduce HCFC consumption by 35 per cent of the baseline, at the amount of US $315,000, plus agency support costs of US $22,050 for UNIDO;
2. To note that the Government of Somalia had agreed to establish as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption an estimated baseline of 5.3 ODP tonnes, calculated using the consumption of 5.1 ODP tonnes and 5.5 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 and 2010, respectively, based on the revised survey data, plus 1.68 ODP tonnes of HCFC-141b contained in imported pre-blended polyols systems, resulting in 6.97 ODP tonnes;
3. To deduct 1.85 ODP tonnes of HCFCs from the starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption;
4. To approve the draft Agreement between the Government of Somalia and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex XIV to the present report;
5. To request the Fund Secretariat, in the event that the baseline consumption for compliance for Somalia was amended based on revised Article 7 data, to update Appendix 2-A to the Agreement to include the revised figures for maximum allowable consumption;
6. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Somalia, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, at the amount of US $133,500, plus agency support costs of US $9,345 for UNIDO;
7. To approve, on an exceptional basis, and without setting a precedent for any future projects, the funding of US $40,374, plus agency support costs of US $2,826 for UNIDO, in the first tranche for the security-related costs, in addition to the funding of stage I of the HPMP to enable the implementation of the programme;
8. To note that additional funding of US $45,000, plus agency support costs of US $3,150 for UNIDO, could be requested when the second tranche was being submitted, on the understanding that approval of this funding would be subject to an assessment of the security situation at the time; and
9. To allow Somalia to submit the foam sector plan for phasing out the HCFC-141b contained in imported pre-blended polyols during the implementation of stage I of the HPMP.