The Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request national ozone officers, with the assistance of the Implementing Agency concerned, to review and assess the content, implementation to date and expected outcomes of their RMPs against their objective to phase-out all consumption in the refrigeration sector according to the Montreal Protocol timetable. In undertaking this review, national ozone officers should:
(i) calculate current and forecast future consumption in relation to the freeze, 50% cut in 2005, 85% cut in 2007 and phase-out in 2010 and calculate the size of consumption cuts in the refrigeration sector required to meet these targets;
(ii) include forecast cuts in consumption attributable to the activities already approved under the RMP, including training activities and recovery/recycling;
(iii) ensure that the current and expected future consumption of all subsectors, including the informal sector, small and medium-sized enterprises and mobile air conditioners, are included in the review;
(iv) for each activity identified, consider the cost and means of funding, including national financing;
(v) ensure that the RMP and government strategy for delivering phase-out includes adequate provision for monitoring and reporting on progress;
(b) that LVCs (or groups of LVCs) with already approved RMPs may submit to the Executive Committee requests for funding additional activities necessary to reduce consumption and thereby ensure compliance with the Protocol. Such additional activities should be essential parts of their comprehensive strategy for phase-out in the refrigeration sector. Additional funding shall not exceed 50% of the funds approved for the original RMP or, where relevant, RMP components. With the possible exception of the post-2007 period noted in subparagraph (d) below, no further funding beyond this level, including funding related to retrofits, would be considered for activities in this sector;
(c) that requests for additional funding consistent with subparagraph (b) above should be accompanied by:
(i) a justification for the additional activities to be funded in the context of the country’s national phase-out strategy;
(ii) a clear explanation of how this funding, together with the initial RMP funding and steps to be taken by the government, will ensure compliance with the Protocol’s reduction steps and phase-out;
(iii) a commitment to achieve, without further requests for funding for the RMP, at least the 50% reduction step in 2005 and the 85% reduction step in 2007. This shall include a commitment by the country to restrict imports if necessary to achieve compliance with the reduction steps and to support RMP activities;
(iv) a commitment to annual reporting of progress in implementing the RMP and meeting the reduction steps;
(d) that it will review in 2005 whether further assistance is needed for the post-2007 period, and what assistance the Fund might consider at that time to enable full compliance with the Protocol’s phase-out requirements.