The Nineteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) that:
(i) each Article 5 producer country should complete the Preliminary Data on the Production Sector form in Annex VIII.16 to the present report and submit it to the Fund Secretariat by 31 December 1996;
(ii) the Article 5 producer country should inform the Executive Committee eight months before it is ready to submit its sector phase-out plan according to the format provided in Annex VIII.16. The Executive Committee should commission a technical audit of the production sector of the country concerned in conjunction with the preparation of the sector plan. This will enable the results of the technical audit to be incorporated into the sector plan and serve as a reference point for reviewing the sector plan. The Executive Committee should approve funding for the preparation of the sector plan and the technical audit;
(iii) the technical audit should follow the terms of reference provided in Annex VIII.16 and include a detailed questionnaire/check-list to be developed prior to the commencement of the audit;
(iv) the technical audit should be conducted by a combined team of local and international experts;
(v) pending the completion of sector plans, the Executive Committee should focus on closure projects which could be considered according to interim guidelines with the understanding that guidelines on other types of projects, e.g. conversions and erecting ODS substitutes production, should be developed at a later date;
(vi) in general, the cost of dismantling the old plant should be offset by the scrap value of the old plant. However, this should be examined on a case-by-basis;
(vii) the environmental clean-up of the ODS-producing facility should not constitute an incremental cost; however, it should be done in an environmentally responsible manner;
(b) to approve the formats for preliminary data on the production sector and the form for the sector phase-out plan, included in Annex VIII.16;
(c) to approve the collection of "Quantities of exported CFCs" called for in item 3.3 of Annex VIII.16 where countries were willing to provide such data, but not to insist on collection if countries regarded the export data as confidential;
(d) to approve the collection of data on "Total employees per CFC plant" called for in Annex VIII.16; and
(e) to appoint a subgroup composed of the representatives of Australia, Chile, India, Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States to study the non-approved parts of the report on the day prior to the next meeting of the Open-ended Working Group in Geneva, and submit a revised document to the Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/64, Decision 19/36, para. 64).