Decision 68/37

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To request UNIDO to submit, to the 69^th meeting, a verification report on CFCs, CTC, TCA and halons for the years 2009 and 2010, together with a full implementation report on the national ODS phase-out plan of Saudi Arabia, and not to accept submission of the second tranche request for the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) without prior submission of both the verification and implementation reports;
2. To approve, in principle, stage I of the HPMP for Saudi Arabia for the period 2012 to 2020 to reduce HCFC consumption by 40 per cent of the baseline, at the amount of US $12,324,648, consisting of US $10,761,270, plus agency support costs of US $753,289 for UNIDO, and US $720,800, plus agency support costs of US $89,288 for UNEP, noting that the two projects to phase out 180.6 ODP tonnes of HCFC-22 and HCFC-142b in the extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam sector at the amount of US $1,718,901, plus agency support costs of US $128,917 for UNIDO, and US $220,000, plus agency support costs of US $28,600 for the Government of Japan, had already been approved at the 62^nd meeting of the Executive Committee and had been included in stage I of the HPMP;
3. To note that, with the amounts referred to in paragraph (b) above, the total funding for stage I of the HPMP for Saudi Arabia amounted to US $13,420,971, plus agency support costs of US $1,000,094;
4. To note that the revised starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption was the baseline of 1,468.7 ODP tonnes, calculated using actual consumption of 1,362.0 ODP tonnes and 1,575.4 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 and 2010, respectively, under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol;
5. To note the commitment of the Government of Saudi Arabia to ban the import and export of HCFC-141b, either in pure form or as a component of blended chemicals, for use in the production of polyurethane (PU) foams or as solvents or for any other application by 1 January 2018;
6. To note the deduction of 180.6 ODP tonnes of HCFCs from the starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption for the two projects approved at the 62^nd meeting and to deduct a further 522.69 ODP tonnes of HCFCs for the implementation of stage I of the HPMP;
7. To note that approval of stage I of the HPMP did not preclude Saudi Arabia from submitting, not earlier than 2015, a proposal to achieve a reduction in HCFCs beyond that addressed in stage I of the HPMP;
8. To request UNIDO and UNEP not to implement any conversion to HFC-245fa in the spray foam sector prior to 1 January 2016, and actively to pursue the establishment of low global-warming-potential alternatives for that sub-sector prior to that date;
9. To approve the Agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex XXII to the present report;
10. To request UNIDO to submit, as part of the request for the second tranche, detailed data regarding the refrigeration and air conditioning manufacturing sector, including the names of all eligible enterprises, their level of HCFC consumption, whether additional capacity had been established prior to the cut-off date, ownership, products manufactured, and information to enable assessment of whether the enterprises would be seen as essentially installing, assembling or manufacturing refrigeration and/or air conditioning equipment;
11. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Saudi Arabia, and the corresponding tranche implementation plans, at the amount of US $2,647,845, consisting of US $2,169,600, plus agency support costs of US $151,872 for UNIDO, and US $290,400, plus agency support costs of US $35,973 for UNEP;
12. To approve the re-allocation of funding remaining from the national ODS phase-out plan at the amount of US $307,000, plus agency support costs of US $23,025 for UNIDO, as agreed by the Government of Saudi Arabia, in line with the implementation plan provided; and
13. To urge the Government of Saudi Arabia to deposit the instruments of ratification of the Montreal and Beijing Amendments to the Montreal Protocol as soon as possible.