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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)).
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