Decision 73/57

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for 2014 to 2018 to reduce HCFC consumption by 15 per cent of the baseline, in the amount of US $979,272, consisting of US $701,880, plus agency support costs of US $49,132 for UNIDO, and US $202,000, plus agency support costs of US $26,260 for UNEP, on the understanding that approval was without prejudice to the operation of the Montreal Protocol’s mechanism for addressing non-compliance;
2. To note that the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had agreed to establish as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption the baseline of 78.0 ODP tonnes, calculated using actual consumption of 61.8 ODP tonnes and 94.1 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 and 2010, respectively, under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol;
3. To note the commitment of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to ban imports of HCFC-141b, both pure and contained in pre-blended polyols, no later than 1 January 2018;
4. To request UNIDO:
   1. To report to the first meeting in 2015 on the results of the consultations with the Committee of the United Nations Security Council regarding equipment items considered unlikely to be prohibited by United Nations resolutions but for which additional information was to be collected by UNIDO to determine that with certainty;
   2. To present, in the event that there were items not cleared by the Committee of the United Nations Security Council, an alternative action plan to address the associated HCFC consumption;
5. To deduct 20.03 ODP tonnes of HCFCs from the starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption;
6. To approve the Agreement* between the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs contained in Annex XVII to the present report;
7. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the corresponding implementation plan, in the amount of US $181,514, consisting of US $123,700, plus agency support costs of US $8,659 for UNIDO, and US $43,500, plus agency support costs of US $5,655 for UNEP; and
8. To request UNIDO and UNEP to follow an approach similar to that taken for the first tranche of the HPMP for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in terms of compliance with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, the modality of disbursement, organizational structures and monitoring procedures when submitting and implementing future tranches of the HPMP.

• This Agreement was revised as per Decision 77/36