The Executive Committee decided:
- To note:
- The national ODS phase-out plan (NPP) implementation report and the verification reports on consumption for 2009 and 2010 for Saudi Arabia;
- With concern the over-consumption of 1.87 ODP tonnes of CTC in 2009 as compared to the maximum allowable consumption limit established in the Agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Executive Committee for the phase-out of ODS, in line with decision 53/28;
- That Saudi Arabia had returned to compliance with the Agreement in the year 2010;
- That, in accordance with paragraph 10 and Appendix 7-A of that Agreement and decision 68/37, there would be a reduction of US $7,813;
- Also to note:
- The progress report on the implementation of the first tranche of stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Saudi Arabia;
- The refrigeration/air-conditioning manufacturing sector survey report, and the final list of eligible enterprises in the refrigeration and air-conditioning sector contained therein;
- That the Secretariat, in agreement with UNIDO, had corrected rows 1.3 and 1.4 of Appendix 2-A to the Agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Executive Committee, and that a new paragraph 16 had been added to indicate that the updated Agreement attached as Annex XIII to the present report superseded that reached at the 68th meeting;
- To approve the second tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Saudi Arabia, and the corresponding 2014-2015 tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $2,971,487, plus agency support costs of US $208,004 for UNIDO, deducting from that amount US $7,813 plus agency support costs of US $586 in accordance with sub‑paragraph (a)(iv) above, on the understanding that the approved funds would not be transferred to UNIDO until the Secretariat had reviewed the verification report and confirmed that the Government of Saudi Arabia was in compliance with the Montreal Protocol and the Agreement between the Government and the Executive Committee.