The Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee
decided:
(a) to note with
appreciation the work carried out by the Secretariat to prepare the proposed
initial guidelines;
(b) to request the Secretariat and the
Implementing Agencies to refine the proposed guidelines,
taking into account the comments made by the members
of the Sub-Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48,
Decision 27/77, para. 108).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/39).
The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided
to adopt the following guidelines for end-user conversion
in the commercial refrigeration sector:
For an initial period of 18 months, the
relevant circumstances which must prevail before priority
will be accorded to end-user conversion activities are:
- that the country has
production and import controls on CFCs and CFC-based
equipment in place and effectively enforced, and
restricts the deployment of new CFC components;
- that, at the time of
seeking compensation in the form of grants for end-user
conversions, the country can establish that its major remaining
consumption is for the servicing of refrigeration
and air-conditioning equipment;
- to establish the above,
that comprehensive data on the profile of all remaining consumption has
been determined and made available to the Executive Committee;
- that either no other
possible activities would allow the country to meet its CFC control
obligations, or the comparative consumer price of
CFCs, relative to substitute refrigerants, has been high for at least 9
months and is predicted to continue to increase.
The guidelines
for the initial period of 18 months are:
- retrofitting
of commercial refrigeration equipment
should continue to be assessed on a case-by-case
basis;
- training
of refrigeration technicians should be recognized
as part of end-user conversion activity in the
refrigeration sector;
- retrofitting
of commercial refrigeration equipment
would be considered for funding based on the experience gained from
implementation of the relevant parts of a refrigerant
management plan;
- for the initial period,
pending review, priority should be given to projects for
the conversion of cold stores in the agricultural,
fisheries or other food-chain industries which are
important for the economies of the countries concerned;
- for the initial period,
the costs associated with replacement of the
refrigerant, replacement of the oil and minor capital
items where necessary, and labour at the local labour
rate, will be eligible as incremental costs. More
extensive conversions including reconditioning or replacement of
compressors and major overhaul of refrigeration
systems will not be considered under the initial guidelines.
Incremental operating costs and savings should be
calculated as for other commercial refrigeration projects for a two-year period;
- enterprise consumption
will be the average annual quantity of CFC refrigerant
which can be established as having been added to the refrigeration
system as per existing Executive Committee guidelines;
- no cost-effectiveness
threshold needs to be established for this initial
period but all existing baseline conditions and
eligibility criteria will be
applied. The funding for the initial period of 18 months will be limited
to US $10 million;
- these guidelines
should be reviewed after being in operation for 18
months.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57, Decision 28/44, para. 76).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/47).