Decision 83/70

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the review and analysis of aspects of the guidelines and the standard format used for ODS production verification (decision 82/87(d)), contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/83/SGP/2;
2. To request the Secretariat to update and submit, for consideration by the Executive Committee at its 84^th meeting, the draft guidelines and standard format used during the verification of ODS production phase-out funded by the Multilateral Fund contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/33, taking into consideration current practices and making the following changes:
   1. Inclusion of procedures reflecting current practices for verification of controlled substances for feedstock and other exempted uses;
   2. Inclusion in the verification report: a description of the mechanism established and implemented by the Government concerned to ensure that plants provided compensation for phase-out of ODS production capacity did not redirect any capacity for feedstock production, if present, towards controlled uses. This shall inter alia include monitoring and enforcement procedures, covering relevant national regulations to deal with cases where provisions of the Agreement had not been adhered by the enterprise and imposition of penalties, where applicable;
   3. Clarification that all the production capacity of controlled substances should be included in production verification, irrespective of when the production capacity had been established;
   4. Clarification that, once a production line had been verified to be vertically integrated with downstream production in which the controlled substance was used only as a feedstock, further annual verifications of that line would not be required;
   5. Confirmation that, once a vertically integrated line had been identified, the owner would be required to retain the records of that line, including process inputs and outputs and purchase and sales data, for at least three years; and
3. To determine, on a case-by-case basis, the additional costs for the verification of additional production lines not established at the time of approval of the production phase-out plan.