Decision 77/15

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The document on country programme (CP) data and prospects for compliance contained in UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/77/18;
   2. That 109 of the 131 countries that had submitted 2015 CP data had done so using the web-based system;
   3. The explanations provided by UNDP and UNEP on the uses of HCFCs as process agents pursuant to decision 76/7(e);
2. To request:
   1. UNEP to continue assisting the Government of Mauritania in finalizing the amendment of its licensing system to include the accelerated control measures for HCFCs, and the Government of Burundi in finalizing the formal HCFC quota system, and to report to the 79^th meeting on its efforts in that respect;
   2. Relevant bilateral and implementing agencies to assist Article 5 countries in addressing data discrepancies between the 2015 CP and Article 7 reports; and
   3. The Secretariat to send letters to the governments of countries with outstanding 2014 and 2015 CP data reports, urging them to submit the reports as soon as possible, noting that, without them, the relevant analyses of ODS consumption and production levels could not be undertaken by the Secretariat.