The Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to approve the projects recommended for blanket approval on the understanding that the Implementing Agencies would take strong steps to ensure that equipment to be replaced by the projects was destroyed or rendered unusable;
(b) that in future project submissions, the Implementing Agencies should provide a list of the equipment to be destroyed or rendered unusable;
(c) to request the Implementing Agencies to provide in their project completion reports information on the actions taken to ensure that specific equipment or components replaced had in fact been destroyed or rendered unusable. The reports should also cover the fate of old equipment in those cases where funds had been approved for retrofitting and the enterprise concerned had subsequently decided to replace the equipment rather than to retrofit. The Secretariat could then transmit this information to a future meeting of the Executive Committee;
(d) to approve the projects recommended for approval on the understanding that the Implementing Agencies would ensure that the safety measures paid for were implemented;
(e) to request the Implementing Agencies to explain in their project completion reports how they ensured that funds allocated for safety-related costs were actually used for this purpose.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/79/Rev.1, Decision 22/38, para. 55).
The Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to approve all investment projects on the understanding that project implementation would not go forward until a list of equipment to be destroyed or made unusable had been prepared, and an undertaking given by the enterprise concerned that the dismantling or destruction would be carried out;
(b) that projects should not be prepared in cases where the countries or enterprises involved did not agree to destruction of the equipment.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47, Decision 24/56, para. 84).
The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to reaffirm decision 22/38 on equipment destruction and decide that, in order to clarify the issue of phase-out claimed as a result of projects “completed”, the following language should be added to the definition of “completed project” contained in decisions 17/22 and 19/23: “that no further use of CFCs is in evidence, that the alternative product is being produced and/or production has begun, and that the CFC-using equipment has been destroyed/dismantled/ rendered unusable with CFCs”;
(b) that formal agreements should be concluded among the national government, the enterprise and the Implementing Agency requiring that replaced equipment should be destroyed/dismantled/rendered unusable and that no CFCs should be used after completion of projects.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57, Decision 28/2, para. 16).
The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to add the following paragraph to Decision 28/2: “To request the agencies to withhold, wherever possible, part of the project funding or reimbursement of cost until proof of disposal and destruction of equipment has been provided.”
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/6, para. 22(c)).
The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee also decided to request the Secretariat to establish, in co-operation with the Implementing Agencies, lists of key parts for standard equipment which need to be destroyed or rendered unusable, while other parts to be specified could be used as spare parts or in a service department, e.g. leak detectors, and in so doing to identify suitable mechanisms to verify destruction.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/6, para. 22(d)).