Decision 86/99

The Executive Committee decided:

To note the progress report on implementation of activities funded by the US $23 million approved in decision 81/71(b), the implementation plan for 2020–2022 and the submission of stage II of the HCFC production phase-out management plan (HPPMP) for China;

1. To note the progress report on implementation of activities funded by the US $23 million approved in decision 81/71(b), the implementation plan for 2020–2022 and the submission of stage II of the HCFC production phase-out management plan (HPPMP) for China;
2. To approve, in principle, stage II of the HPPMP for China for the period 2018–2026 to reduce HCFC production for controlled uses by 67.5 per cent and 71.5 per cent of the baseline, by 2025 and 2026, respectively, in the amount of US $70,752,000, consisting of US $67,000,000, plus agency support costs of US $3,752,000 for the World Bank, and including the sum of US $23,000,000, plus agency support costs of US $1,288,000 for the World Bank, already approved in decision 81/71(b);
3. To note that US $45,143 of cumulative interest accrued during stage I and stage II of the HPPMP between 2015 and 2019 would be deducted from the second tranche of stage II of the HPPMP, when approved, and that the present decision would supersede decisions 77/66(b), 80/80(b) and 82/88(c);
4. To note also that the World Bank would undertake the 2019 and 2020 HCFC production verification under stage II of the HPPMP in 2021 and would submit a report thereon to the Executive Committee at its last meeting of 2021;
5. To request the World Bank, as part of the verification exercise referred to in sub‑paragraph (d) above, to verify, on a one-off basis:
   1. That the newly established production lines for HCFC-22 in Jiangxi Zhongfu Chemical Materials Technology, Jiangxi Lee and Man Chemical Company and Inner Mongolia Yonghe Fluorochemical Co., as well as those for HCFC-142b in Inner Mongolia 3F Wanhao Fluorochemical, were vertically integrated with the production of downstream facilities and that all HCFCs produced in the new lines would be channelled to feedstock use;
   2. The date of cessation of production at the new HCFC-142b production line at Taixing Meilan;
   3. That the closure and dismantling of the new 5,500 metric tonnes/year HCFC-142b production line at Inner Mongolia 3F Wanhao Fluorochemical had taken place;
   4. That the pipeline connection between the HCFC-142b production, the bulk storage tank and the product packaging station at Inner Mongolia Yonghe Fluorochemical Co., had been dismantled; and
6. To request the Secretariat to present the draft Agreement for stage II of the HPPMP, as orally amended by the Sub-group on the Production Sector, for consideration by the Executive Committee at its 87th meeting.