Decision 83/28

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the request from the Government of Tunisia to remove the residential air‑conditioning manufacturing sector plan, implemented by UNIDO and the Government of France, from stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Tunisia, noting that all enterprises included in the sector plan had phased out their consumption of HCFC-22 (4.36 ODP tonnes);
2. Also to note:
   1. That the amount of US $1,206,919, comprising US $513,275 and the associated project management unit (PMU) costs of US $81,462, plus agency support costs of US $41,632 for UNIDO, and US $505,000, plus agency support costs of US $65,550 for the Government of France, approved in principle for the residential air-conditioning manufacturing sector plan would be removed from the Agreement between the Government of Tunisia and the Executive Committee;
   2. The revised plan for the refrigeration servicing sector included in stage I of the HPMP;
   3. That the Fund Secretariat had updated the Agreement between the Government of Tunisia and the Executive Committee, contained in Annex III to the present report, specifically: making changes to Appendix 2‑A to reflect the removal of the residential air-conditioning manufacturing sector plan implemented by UNIDO and the Government of France, the revisions to the funding schedule, and the extension of the duration of stage I; removing Appendix 8-A and the reference to it in paragraph 12; and adding a new paragraph 16 to indicate that the updated Agreement superseded that reached at the 72^nd meeting;
3. To approve the extension of the duration of stage I of the HPMP from 2018 to 2020; and
4. To request UNIDO and the Government of France to return US $898,976 to the Multilateral Fund at the 84^th meeting, consisting of US $340,237 and the associated PMU costs of US $21,792, plus agency support costs of US $25,342 for UNIDO, and US $454,087, plus agency support costs of US $57,518 for the Government of France, associated with the residential air-conditioning manufacturing sector plan approved as part of the first and second tranches of stage I of the HPMP.