Decision 95/75

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Uruguay for the period 2024–2029 to reduce HFC consumption by 10 per cent of the country’s baseline by 2029, in the amount of US $367,250, consisting of US $219,340, plus agency support costs of US $28,514, for UNDP and US $105,660, plus agency support costs of US $13,736, for UNIDO, as reflected in the schedule contained in annex LI to the present report;
2. To note:
   1. The commitment of the country to ban the manufacture and import of HFC-based domestic refrigerators and stand-alone commercial refrigeration equipment by 1 July 2027 and 1 January 2029, respectively;
   2. That a project to phase out HFCs contained in imported pre-blended polyols in the polyurethane foam sector in Uruguay would be subject to the decision taken by the Executive Committee on whether it would fund the phase-out of HFCs contained in imported pre-blended polyols;
   3. That the Government of Uruguay would establish its starting point for sustained aggregate reductions in HFC consumption on the basis of guidance provided by the Executive Committee;
   4. That, once the cost guidelines for HFC phase-down had been agreed by the Executive Committee, reductions from the country’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding would be determined in line with those guidelines;
   5. That the reductions from the country’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding referred to in subparagraph (b)(iv) above would be deducted from the starting point referred to in subparagraph (b)(iii);
3. To note also:
   1. That the Government of Uruguay would continue to monitor its HFC consumption to understand the extent to which reported consumption in baseline years was representative of the local market’s needs and to assess what future HFC demand would be and would provide that analysis when submitting the second tranche of its KIP;
   2. That, on the basis of the information provided in subparagraph (c)(i) above, the maximum allowable consumption limits for the remaining years of stage I of the KIP, as contained in Appendix 2-A to the future Agreement between the Government of the Uruguay and the Executive Committee, would be revised when the Committee considered the second tranche of the KIP;
4. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Uruguay, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $199,769, consisting of US $126,927, plus agency support costs of US $16,500, for UNDP and US $49,860, plus agency support costs of US $6,482, for UNIDO; and
5. To request the Government of Uruguay, UNDP, UNIDO and the Secretariat to finalize the draft Agreement between the Government of Uruguay and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HFCs, including the information contained in the annex referred to in subparagraph (a) above, and to submit it to a future meeting once the KIP Agreement template had been approved by the Executive Committee.