Decision 75/63

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The progress report on the implementation of the first tranche of stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) in Peru;
   2. The submission of a revised plan of action for the implementation of the remaining activities under the first and second tranches of the HPMP;
   3. With concern that the Government of Peru had been unable to establish a ban on imports of HCFC-141b in bulk by 1 January 2015 in line with decision 68/35(c), but had committed to do so by 1 January 2017;
   4. The issues encountered in the clearance by customs of equipment procured by UNIDO during the implementation of the terminal phase-out management plan, while encouraging the Government of Peru and the relevant implementing agencies to facilitate the clearance of that equipment from customs and distribution to the training centres, recalling that if customs duties were required to release the equipment, such duties would be covered by the beneficiary or the Government, in line with decision 26/3;
   5. That the Agreement between the Government of Peru and the Executive Committee contained in Annex XXX to the present report had been updated in paragraph 1 and Appendices 2-A and 8-A to reflect the extension of stage I of the HPMP until 2016, and to add paragraph 16 to indicate that the updated Agreement superseded that reached at the 68^th meeting;
2. To approve the second tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Peru and the revised 2015-2016 tranche implementation plans, in the amount of US $131,600, consisting of US $100,000, plus agency support costs of US $9,000 for UNDP, and US $20,000, plus agency support costs of US $2,600 for UNEP, on the understanding that no further funding would be approved for subsequent tranches of stage I or stage II of the HPMP for Peru until:
   1. The Government of Peru had reported, through UNDP, that all the outputs agreed in the revised plan of action for the second tranche as reflected in Appendix 8-A of the Agreement had been completed; and
   2. Assurances had been provided by the Government of Peru that imports of HCFC-141b in bulk would be banned from 1 January 2017.