Decision 67/30

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for South Africa for the period 2012 to 2020 to reduce HCFC consumption by 35 per cent of the baseline, at the amount of US $6,533,556, plus agency support costs of US $457,349 for UNIDO;
2. To note that the Government of South Africa had agreed to establish as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption the established baseline of 369.7 ODP tonnes, calculated using the consumption of 339.2 ODP tonnes and 400.1 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 and 2010, respectively, under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol;
3. To note the commitment of the Government of South Africa to ban imports and exports of HCFC-141b, both pure or as a component of blended chemicals for use in the production of foams or as solvents or any other application, no later than 1 January 2016, and to ban imports of new or used refrigeration and air-conditioning systems containing HCFCs by 1 January 2014;
4. To deduct 176.72 ODP tonnes of HCFCs from the starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption;
5. To note that approval of stage I of the HPMP did not preclude South Africa from submitting, not earlier than 2015, a proposal to achieve a reduction in HCFCs beyond that addressed in stage I of the HPMP;
6. To approve the Agreement between the Government of South Africa and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex XVI to the present report;
7. To request the Fund Secretariat, in the event that the baseline consumption for compliance for South Africa was amended based on revised Article 7 data, to update Appendices 1-A and 2-A to the Agreement to include the revised figures for maximum allowable consumption, and to notify the Executive Committee of the resulting change in the levels of maximum allowable consumption;
8. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for South Africa, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, at the amount of US $1,960,229, plus agency support costs of US $137,216 for UNIDO; and
9. To request UNIDO to provide within its tranche implementation plan a specific section reporting on the progress on implementing the accelerated phase-out of non-eligible HCFC consumption and concrete measures taken to prepare and implement the import and export controls for HCFC-141b and HCFC-containing equipment.