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The
Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to set up a working
group on the phase-out plan for the solvent sector in China. The working group,
which would be assisted in its tasks by the Fund Secretariat and UNDP, would:
(a) report back to the Executive Committee;
(b) hold its first meeting back-to-back with the
Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee;
(c) comprise the following members: Bahamas,
Brazil, China, Japan, Sweden (Chair) and United States of America.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48,
Decision 27/79, para. 111).
The
Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to approve the 29 March 2000 agreement on the
phase-out of ozone-depleting substances in China’s solvent sector (Annex
XII.49);
(b) to approve the first payment under the
agreement in the amount of US $6,750,000 and US $675,000 in support
costs to UNDP.
(c) to note with appreciation the work of the
Working Group on the Phase-out of Ozone-depleting Substances in China’s solvent
sector and to dissolve it.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41,
Decision 30/56, para. 85).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/34).
The Thirty-seventh Meeting of the
Executive Committee decided:
(a) to
take note of the fact that disbursement of funds from the 2002 programme of the
solvent sector phase-out plan had not yet taken place, in the absence of the
submission of relevant information by the Government of China;
(b) to look forward to a
report from UNDP and the Government of China about China’s ability to meet the
requirements of the agreement.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/71,
Decision 37/22, para. 50).
The
Forty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to approve US $5,680,000, plus support
costs of US $426,000 for UNDP, for the 2005 tranche of the solvent sector
plan for China;
(b) to approve an amendment to the 2005 annual
implementation programme to reallocate US $2 million in savings from
previous tranches of the solvent sector plan to purchase and install equipment
for the purification of n propyl bromide (nPB), subject to the following
conditions:
(i) HEP-2
produced by China would not be made available for export;
(ii) an
annual production quota would be imposed on HEP-2 to meet the requirement for
solvent use only;
(iii) China
would ensure that HEP-2 was only supplied to enterprises involved in the China
solvent sector plan;
(iv) the
Import and Export Office of China would monitor and ensure that no HEP-2 was
exported by China; and
(v) the
implementing agency of the China solvent sector plan, UNDP, would include in
its annual audit verification plan that no HEP-2 was exported.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/45/55,
Decision 45/47, para. 153).
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