The Executive Committee decided:
- To note the verification report of the HCFC production sector for China, considered by the Sub-group on the Production Sector, which indicated that China remained within the maximum allowable production and consumption targets for 2015;
- To request the World Bank:
- To continue verifying producer’s export data through cross-checking with customs export data for individual plant verification;
- To verify, in the 2016 verification exercise to be conducted in 2017, the closure and dismantling of the HCFC production lines that had signed the contracts for idle capacity closure;
- To encourage the Government of China to ensure that producing enterprises avoided the practice identified in the verification report of selling waste residues containing HCFCs to the market; and
- To request the World Bank to report to the Executive Committee on the management of waste residues in the context of future verification reports.