Decision 67/5

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. With appreciation, the status reports and reports on projects with implementation delays submitted to the Secretariat by the implementing agencies and the Governments of France, Japan and Spain addressed in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/67/6;
   2. That 47 country programme (CP) implementation reports for the year 2011 had been submitted through the web-based system, which had been initiated on 25 April 2007;
   3. That the Secretariat and the implementing agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessments (some progress as per Annex II to the present report) and report to and notify governments and bilateral and implementing agencies as required;
   4. The significant reduction in reporting resulting from the streamlining decision to date, which has led to the elimination of 81 tranche implementation plan reports for 81 non-HCFC multi-year agreements (MYAs), and 96 tranche implementation plan reports for HCFC phase-out management plans (HPMPs) in 62 countries at the 67^th meeting, with some involving tranches from multiple agencies;
2. To address requests for technology changes under the agenda item on investment projects;
3. To urge the following countries that had not yet submitted 2011 CP data to do so before the 68^th meeting: China, the Cook Islands, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the Syrian Arab Republic;
4. To request:
   1. Implementing agencies to ensure that the requirements of decision 66/16(b)(ii) were fulfilled in the future as a condition for submission of tranche implementation plans to meetings following the 67^th meeting;
   2. The Government of South Africa to provide CP data relating to HCFCs following approval of its HPMP;
   3. Additional status reports on the projects listed in Annexes III and IV to the present report;
   4. The Government of Israel to provide its implementation delay reports to the 68^th meeting of the Executive Committee;
   5. The submission to the 69^th meeting of additional specific status reports on the remaining 34 projects listed in Annex V to the present report;
5. With respect to the HCFC demonstration project:
   1. To note with appreciation the report entitled “HFO-1234ze as a blowing agent in the manufacture of extruded polystyrene foam boardstock: An assessment for the application in MLF projects”, submitted by UNDP;
   2. To request bilateral and implementing agencies to share the UNDP assessment report on HFO-1234ze, together with information on other alternatives, when assisting Article 5 countries in preparing projects for the phase-out of HCFC‑142b/HCFC-22 in extruded polystyrene foam applications; and
6. With respect to resource mobilization for climate co-benefits, to note the interim reports on resource mobilization for climate co-benefits submitted by UNDP and UNIDO and to urge them to submit final reports on those projects by the 69^th meeting.