1. The Executive Committee agrees to approve in principle US $630,517 as the total funds that will be available to achieve commitments noted in this document for the phased reduction in the use of methyl bromide in Romania, subject to the following understandings and considerations.
2. As reported to the Ozone Secretariat, and consistent with information in the project document presented to the Executive Committee, Romania had a consumption of 93.9 ODP tonnes of methyl bromide in 1998. In accordance with the data submitted to the Ozone Secretariat by Romania for the years 1995-1998, Romania has a methyl bromide baseline of 111.49 ODP tonnes. Accordingly, Romania has achieved compliance with the Protocol’s 2002 freeze obligation.
3. Reductions in accordance with the terms of this project, and the other commitments presented in the project document, will ensure that Romania will exceed subsequent phase-out requirements of the Montreal Protocol. Specifically, Romania commits to a permanent national reduction in aggregate consumption of controlled uses of methyl bromide to no more than the following levels during the 12-month period of the following listed years:
2002 84.5 ODP tonnes (reduction of 9.4 ODP tonnes).
2003 56.4 ODP tonnes (reduction of 28.1 ODP tonnes).
2004 28.5 ODP tonnes (reduction of additional 27.9 ODP tonnes).
2005 0.0 ODP tonnes (reduction of the last 28.5 ODP tonnes).
4. In addition, Romania commits to sustain this phase-out of methyl bromide by banning its use as a soil fumigant, completely banning production of methyl bromide for soil fumigation and, if necessary and when required, producing methyl bromide only for storage and/or quarantine and pre-shipment applications. The specific reductions in consumption noted above would be those achieved through this project. Reductions in accordance with the terms of this project, and the other commitments presented in the project, will ensure that Romania exceeds subsequent phase-out requirements of the Montreal Protocol.
5. The Government of Italy shall report annually to the Executive Committee on the progress in meeting the reductions required by this project, as well as on annual costs related to the equipment being purchased with the project funds. The Government of Italy agrees to manage the funding for this project in a manner designed to ensure that the specific annual reductions agreed are met.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/58, Decision 34/25, para. 45).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/58 Annex VIII).