Decision 88/72

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the progress report on implementation of the second tranche of stage II of the HCFC phase?out management plan (HPMP) for Pakistan;
2. To note also the deferral, to the 90th meeting, of consideration of the UNIDO component of the third tranche of stage II, relating to the project to convert the manufacturing of domestic air-conditioners from HCFC-22 to R-290 at the enterprise Dawlance;
3. To request UNIDO to submit, at the 90th meeting, a detailed report on progress in the implementation of the project mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above;
4. To extend, on an exceptional basis, the implementation period of stage II of the HPMP for Pakistan, to 31 December 2023, given delays in completing ongoing activities owing to the coronavirus disease pandemic, on the understanding that no further extension of project implementation would be requested;
5. To note the commitment by the Government of Pakistan to monitor and to report in its country programme implementation report the use of HCFC-141b contained in pre-blended polyols and to establish monitoring mechanisms to ensure that the converted foam manufacturing enterprises were no longer using HCFC-141b, either pure or contained in pre-blended polyols;
6. To note also that the Fund Secretariat had updated the Agreement* between the Government of Pakistan and the Executive Committee, as contained in Annex XXXV to the present report, specifically Appendix 2-A, to include the approval of the investment project for the extruded polystyrene foam enterprise in accordance with decision 84/78(c)(iii), to reallocate the funding planned for the UNIDO component of the third tranche to a fourth tranche in 2022, and to extend stage II of the HPMP to 31 December 2023, and paragraph 16, to indicate that the revised Agreement superseded that reached at the 83rd meeting; and
7. To approve the third tranche of stage II of the HPMP, and the corresponding 2021–2022 tranche implementation plan in the amount of US $103,000, plus agency support costs of US $13,378, for UNEP.

• This Agreement was revised as per Decision 90/47