Decision 68/4

Following discussions in the contact group, 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 Germany and Spain addressed in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/68/6 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/68/6/Add.1;
   2. That the total production of CTC for China indicated in paragraph 10 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/68/6 should be revised to 415.06 metric tonnes, consisting of 179.92 metric tonnes for process agent uses and 235.14 metric tonnes for laboratory uses;
   3. That 65 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;
   4. That the Secretariat and the implementing agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessments and report to and notify governments and implementing agencies as required;
2. To request:
   1. The implementing agencies to consider the need for additional methyl bromide (MB) projects, taking into account the evaluation of the MB projects contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/68/11, in the potential countries that had remaining consumption of MB not covered under approved projects or were exempt from compliance pursuant to decision XV/12 of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Parties;
   2. The implementing agencies to include in their 2013-2015 business plans stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plans (HPMPs) for the following countries that had not yet submitted their HPMPs: Barbados, Botswana, Libya, Mauritania, South Sudan and Tunisia;
   3. The Governments of Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Panama, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste to report to the Secretariat, as a matter of urgency, on whether their licensing systems were functioning“satisfactorily”,“very well” or“not so well”;
   4. The Governments to report, on a voluntary basis, on an average import Free on Board (FOB) price for each ODS and ODS substitute in the revised CP format mandated by decision 63/4(b)(ii);
   5. That letters of possible cancellation be sent in respect of the following projects:

6. Additional status reports on the projects listed in Annexes VI and VII to the present report;
7. The Governments of the Czech Republic, France, Israel and Japan to provide their implementation delay reports to the 69^th meeting of the Executive Committee;
8. The submission to the 69^th meeting of additional specific status reports on the remaining five projects with specific reporting requirements (BRA/PHA/50/INV/278, BRA/PHA/53/INV/280, BRA/PHA/56/INV/284, BRA/PHA/59/INV/293 and COL/FOA/60/DEM/75), as shown in Annex VIII to the present report;
   3. With respect to resource mobilization for climate co-benefits:
      1. To take note of the important information on resource mobilization provided in the desk study on the evaluation of chiller projects as presented in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/68/10 and noted in paragraphs 48 to 54 of the present report;
      2. To request that UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO and the World Bank take into account the information provided in the desk study, where relevant, and incorporate such information in the final reports on resource mobilization for climate co‑benefits to be presented to the 69^th meeting in the context of the terms of reference set out in decisions decision 63/20, decision 63/22, decision 63/23 and decision 63/24;
      3. To request the Secretariat, in its review and summary of the final reports, to include an elaboration of the elements called for in the decisions of the 63^rd meeting of the Executive Committee, in consultation with the respective implementing agency, and to provide its recommendations to the 69^th meeting on criteria identified in those final reports that could facilitate consideration of whether to engage in a short-term pilot scheme for mobilization of financing for non-eligible projects;
9. With respect to the verification report on the Process agent sector plan (phase II) in China: status of CTC phase-out in process agent applications, to request the World Bank, on behalf of the Government of China, to submit a project completion report for phase II of the plan, accompanied by a revised 2010 verification report for the sector, together with a report on CTC production and consumption, in line with decision 65/10(i), no later than the 70^th meeting;
   5. With respect to the Progress report on final implementation (2010-2012) and consumption verification report for 2009 and 2010 in Nigeria:
      1. To note the verification report for CFC consumption in Nigeria for 2009 and 2010;
      2. To note the submission of a report on the implementation of the national CFC phase-out plan for Nigeria from 2010 to 2012;
      3. To approve use of part of the remaining funds for a publication and the return of the balance to the Multilateral Fund, as proposed in the submission;
   6. With respect to the verification report on the National ODS phase-out plan in Tunisia (2010 verification report on the consumption of CFCs and halons), to note the verification report on CFC and halon consumption in Tunisia for 2010;
   7. With respect to the methyl bromide (MB) project in Costa Rica:
      1. To note the 2011 annual progress report on the implementation of the fifth tranche of the project for the total phase-out of MB used as a fumigant for melons, cut flowers, bananas, tobacco seedbeds and nurseries, excluding quarantine and pre-shipment applications, in Costa Rica;
      2. To authorize the disbursement of US $297,300 by UNDP to the Government of Costa Rica as part of the fifth tranche of the project;
      3. To request UNDP to submit the project completion report to the Executive Committee soon after completion of the fifth tranche of the project; and
   8. With respect to UNEP’s progress report on the implementation of Executive Committee decision 66/15 in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to note the progress report submitted by UNEP on the implementation of Executive Committee decision 66/15 on the institutional strengthening project for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.