Decision 75/53

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The progress report on the implementation of the fourth tranche of stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan of (HPMP) for Brazil;
   2. That the Agreement between the Government of Brazil and the Executive Committee contained in Annex XXVII to the present report had been updated in Appendix 2-A to reflect the deduction of US $179,300, plus agency support costs of US $13,448 for UNDP, associated with the conversion of the foam enterprise Arinos, which had been identified as non-eligible for funding under the Multilateral Fund after approval of the HPMP, and to add paragraph 16 to indicate that the updated Agreement superseded that reached at the 64^th meeting;
2. To request the Government of Brazil, UNDP and the Government of Germany to submit progress reports on the implementation of the work programme associated with the fifth and final tranche on a yearly basis until the completion of the project, verification reports until approval of stage II of the HPMP, and the project completion report to the final meeting of the Executive Committee in 2018;
3. To request UNDP to include in the progress report to be submitted to the 77^th meeting a complete list of downstream foam enterprises assisted by the Multilateral Fund under stage I, including for each the HCFC-141b consumption phased out, the sub-sector, the baseline equipment and the technology adopted; and
4. To approve the fifth and final tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Brazil, and the corresponding 2016 tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $2,035,094, consisting of US $1,470,700, plus agency support costs of US $110,303 for UNDP, and US $409,091, plus agency support cost of US $45,000 for Germany.