Decision 88/29

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the requests to extend the completion dates of the HCFC phase-out management plans (HPMPs) for 16 Article 5 countries, from 31 December 2021 to various dates beyond 31 December 2022, as listed in Table 7 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/88/18;
2. To allow, on an exceptional basis:
   1. Continued implementation of the outstanding activities related to stage I of the HPMPs for Barbados (UNEP), Botswana (UNEP and UNIDO), Congo (UNEP), Côte d’Ivoire (UNEP and UNIDO), Dominica (UNEP), Grenada (UNEP), Mozambique (UNEP and UNIDO), Jamaica (UNEP), Saint Kitts and Nevis (UNEP), South Africa (UNIDO), Suriname (UNEP and UNIDO) and Zambia (UNEP and UNIDO) and to request the relevant implementing agencies to submit, at the 90^th meeting, a revised implementation plan, including, as applicable, requests for the remaining tranches under stage I;
   2. UNEP to continue implementation of the outstanding activities related to stage I of the HPMPs for Haiti, Mali and South Sudan and to request UNEP to submit a report on the status of their implementation at the 90^th meeting, as well as a report as part of the UNEP progress report at the 91^st meeting, on the understanding that no additional funding requests for implementation of HPMP and HFC project activities would be submitted before operational completion of stage I of the HPMPs; and
   3. UNIDO to continue implementation of the outstanding activities related to stage II of the HPMP for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and to request UNIDO to submit a comprehensive plan of action at the 90^th meeting.