Decision 82/36

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve the request from the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to remove the polyurethane foam sector plan, implemented by UNDP, from stage II of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) on the understanding that, if the eligible enterprises included in the project reinitiated the use of significant amounts of HCFC-141b during the implementation of stage II of the HPMP, UNDP could resubmit a proposal to address their conversion;
2. To note:
   1. That US $1,326,564, plus agency support costs of US $92,849, approved in principle for UNDP for the polyurethane foam sector plan of stage II of the HPMP had been removed from the Agreement between the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Executive Committee;
   2. That UNDP had returned to the Multilateral Fund, at the 82^nd meeting, US $76,420, plus agency support costs of US $5,349, associated with the polyurethane foam sector plan approved as part of the first tranche of stage II of the HPMP;
   3. The revised plan for stage II in the refrigeration servicing sector; and
   4. That the Fund Secretariat had updated Appendix 2-A of the Agreement between the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Executive Committee, contained in Annex IX to the present report, to reflect the removal of the polyurethane foam sector plan implemented by UNDP and the revised funding schedule for the UNIDO component, and that a new paragraph 16 had been added to indicate that the updated Agreement* superseded that reached at the 76^th meeting.

• This Agreement was revised as per Decision 91/56