Decision 82/87

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the 2017 verification report of the HCFC production sector in China considered by the Sub-group on the Production Sector;
2. To request the World Bank, in the 2018 verification exercise to be conducted in 2019:
   1. To verify, on a one-time basis, that the newly established production lines at Fujian Sannong, Liaocheng Fuer and Zhejiang Jusheng Fluorochemical for HCFC-22 and at Inner Mongolia Yonghe Flurochemical for HCFC-142b were vertically integrated with the production of downstream facilities and that all HCFCs produced in the new lines were being channelled to feedstock use;
   2. To verify that the key equipment in Shangdong China Fluoro Technology Co. Ltd., which was closed in 2017, had been destroyed;
   3. To include, in the annual verification report of the HCFC production sector in China, national information on the management of HFC-23 by-product generated in all HCFC-22 feedstock production lines established after 2010, including the four HCFC-22 production lines, the establishment of which had been reported to the Executive Committee at its 74^th and 82^nd meetings;
3. To request the World Bank to include in the annual verification report of the HCFC production sector, national information provided by the Government of China on the management of HFC-23 by-product generated in all HCFC-22 feedstock production lines established after 2010, including the four HCFC-22 production lines the establishment of which had been reported to the Executive Committee at its 74^th and 82^nd meetings; and
4. To request the Secretariat to provide a document for the consideration of the Sub-group on the Production Sector in the margins of the 83^rd meeting, containing a review of the guidelines and standard format used during the verification of ODS production phase‑out, as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/33, and analysis of aspects of the guidelines and the standard format where further improvements could be made to support compliance through strengthening the monitoring of the ODS production and the associated costs.