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The
Forty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the final report on
the intermediate evaluation of refrigerant management plans and national phase
out plans in non low volume consuming countries focusing on the refrigeration
servicing sector contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/12; and
(b) to request the Senior Monitoring and
Evaluation Officer to develop a comprehensive and categorized compendium of
recommendations relevant to that evaluation, distinguishing between new
recommendations and those that had already been approved by the Executive
Committee, and to present that compendium to the 49th Meeting of the Executive
Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/45,
Decision 48/10, para. 77).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/12).
The Forty-ninth Meeting of the
Executive Committee decided:
(a) to recommend that National Ozone Units (NOUs) in planning and
implementing refrigerant management plans and national or terminal phase-out
plans consider, where feasible and in cooperation with other relevant
government ministries/agencies:
(i) updating and complementing ODS-related
legislation where additional legal measures were needed and further
specification of enforcement mechanisms had been identified, including, for
example:
banning the import and export of CFC-based
second-hand refrigeration equipment;
mandatory certification of technicians
performing professional activities in refrigeration servicing;
specification of a system of sanctions in
cases of violation of legal regulations;
improvement of the mechanisms for import
and export quota allocations under the licensing system and the monitoring of
their actual use;
enhancement of cooperation between the NOU
and the customs authorities;
(ii) upgrading the curriculum for technical
training in refrigeration, where needed, and providing all training
institutions with the latest relevant information with regard to the general
application of good practices to significantly reduce usage of ODS and to
promote the use of alternatives;
(b) to request implementing and bilateral agencies, when implementing
ongoing national phase-out plans and when planning new national phase-out
plans, to take into consideration decision 41/100 for the recovery and
recycling part of national phase-out plans, in particular the following
paragraphs:
(i) “concentrating recovery and reuse of CFCs in
large-size commercial and industrial installations and mobile air conditioning
sectors, if significant numbers of CFC-12-based systems still existed and the
availability of CFC was strongly reduced by the adoption of effective import
control measures;
(ii) further exploring possibilities for
facilitating cost-effective retrofitting and/or use of drop-in substitutes,
possibly through incentive programmes;
(iii) becoming more selective in providing new
recovery, and in particular recycling, equipment by:
a. establishing during project preparation a
sounder estimate of the likely demand for recovery and recycling equipment;
b. delivering equipment to the country only
against firm orders and with significant cost participation by the workshops
for equipment provided, using locally-assembled machines to the extent
possible;
c. procuring, delivering and distributing
equipment in several stages, after reviewing the utilization of equipment
delivered and verifying further demand;
d. ensuring that adequate follow-up service and
information was available to keep the recovery and recycling equipment in
service;
(iv) monitoring the use of equipment and knowledge
acquired by the beneficiaries, on an ongoing basis, through regular
consultations and collection of periodic reports from the workshops, to be
carried out by national consultants in cooperation with associations of
technicians. Progress reports based on such monitoring should be prepared
annually by the consultant and/or the National Ozone Units, in cooperation with
the implementing agency, as provided in decision 31/48, and sufficient
additional resources should be made available to allow for such follow-up and
reporting work” (from decision 41/100);
(c) to request bilateral and multilateral implementing agencies, in
cooperation with the relevant national institutions:
(i) to base the training of technicians on a
strategy combining theoretical training with practical exercises during
seminars with limited numbers of participants, and assisting in upgrading the
curriculum of technical training institutes for refrigeration servicing in
countries where it had not yet been done;
(ii) to pay full attention to safety aspects and
the necessary modification or replacement of electrical components in countries
where training in the use of hydrocarbons and particularly retrofitting was carried
out; and
(iii) to select carefully the type of refrigerant
identifiers to be purchased, taking into account preferences for small portable
units, suitable for identifying different types of refrigerants, and including
a test phase, where feasible, before buying larger numbers. Moreover, the
administrative details of their distribution, usage and storage should be
planned in advance in order to avoid delays and to increase the effectiveness
of their use;
(d) to request the Fund Secretariat, in cooperation with bilateral and
multilateral implementing agencies, to develop recommendations for indicative
lists of appropriate equipment for the main target groups and share information
about competitive suppliers, including from Article 5 countries; and
(e) to request the Fund
Secretariat, in cooperation with bilateral and multilateral implementing
agencies, to develop an appropriate reporting format for the tracking of
cumulative progress achieved in the annual work programmes, summarizing in
standardized overview tables the information requested in decision 47/50, with
a view to simplifying and rationalizing the overall reporting requirements and
to report back to the 51st Meeting of the Executive Committee. Such assessment
should contain a “comparison of what had been planned in the previous annual
tranche and what had been achieved. The disbursement information should be
provided cumulatively and data concerning actual or planned commitments could
also be provided, as appropriate. The information should also specify how the
relevant flexibility clause in the agreement was implemented and/or how to
allocate unused funds from previous tranches” (from decision 47/50,
subparagraph (b)(i)).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/49/43,
Decision 49/6, para. 54).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/49/7).
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