Decision 93/94

December 2023
Local installation and assembly subsector using HFCs

The Executive Committee decided

  1. To note document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/93/99 on the types of activities that Article 5 countries could undertake, on the nature of the assistance required and on supply chain issues that needed to be resolved to address consumption in the local installation and assembly subsector in their Kigali HFC implementation plans (KIPs);
  2. To take into consideration the information provided in the document referred to in subparagraph (a) above when discussing issues related to the local installation and assembly subsector and in deciding further steps on the matter; 
  3. To invite Article 5 countries, through the bilateral and implementing agencies or their KIPs, to continue providing to the Secretariat, on a voluntary basis, information on the local installation and assembly subsector; 
  4. To request the Secretariat to provide, at the 95th meeting, an update to the document referred to in subparagraph (a) above, taking into account additional information provided by Article 5 countries on the local installation and assembly subsector; and
  5. To encourage bilateral and implementing agencies and Article 5 countries, when developing projects in the local installation and assembly subsector under stage I of their KIPs, to ensure that such projects take a strategic approach to facilitate the sustained phase-down of HFCs in the applications being targeted by the project, taking into account the suggestions and activities proposed in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/93/99.