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The
Sixteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee agreed to give priority to the
preparation of projects in the fire extinguisher sub-sector over the next few
years. In this regard, Implementing Agencies should, over the next three years,
develop and submit projects to phase-out the entire halon fire extinguisher
sub-sector in Article 5 countries. During this time frame, the Executive
Committee would consider projects in this sub-sector taking into consideration
six months of operating cost/savings. Following this time frame, the calculation
of incremental cost/savings would be expected to revert to the four-year level
that had been the tradition for this sub-sector.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/20,
para. 81).
(Supporting
document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/16).
The Executive Committee also agreed to the
following special arrangements:
(a) to avoid unintentional market distortions,
projects should be submitted to phase-out the country's entire fire
extinguisher sub-sector and the funding distributed among all manufacturers in
the sub-sector. However, for countries with more than five halon extinguisher
enterprises, the projects could be submitted in groups of enterprises that were
likely to be competitive for the same market within the country;
(b) to ensure that the project objectives were
fulfilled, the government should clearly indicate that the use of halon 1211 in
the sub-sector covered by the project approved by the Committee should be
prohibited through import bans or commitments to reduced halon production, or
both;
(c) agreements should be reached with upstream
substitute producers whose conversion was supported by the Fund to determine
the appropriate input prices for substitutes used by downstream manufacturers
to avoid double-counting; and
(d) to standardize project proposals and facilitate
an expeditious review, baseline and with-project capital and operating costs
should be presented in project proposals.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/20,
para. 82).
(Supporting
document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/16).
The
Eighteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that flexibility should
be shown in the case of large halon-producing enterprises, but that the burden
of proving the need for conversion to a range of technologies should be placed
on the enterprise. It also underlined the desirability of maintaining the 85-15
per cent ratio of ABC-powder/carbon dioxide after conversion of the sector.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/18/75, Decision 18/4,
para. 16(b).
(Supporting document:
UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/16).
The
Executive Committee requested Article 5 countries with several halon fire
extinguisher manufacturers to include in their sub-sector phase-out requests
for funding a plan for the distribution of the country's total sectoral
incremental costs to address any unintentional market distortions, and the
Implementing Agencies to provide an itemization of all miscellaneous and
capital costs, to utilize a materials balance approach to the calculation of
incremental operating costs/savings in the halon fire extinguisher sub-sector
and to specify the after-conversion product line in terms of the sizes of fire
extinguishers to be produced as a result of the conversion.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/18/75, Annex V,
paras. 1-2).
(Supporting document:
UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/16).
The
Nineteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee, having considered the document
on the re-examination of guidelines for halon fire extinguisher conversion
projects prepared by the Secretariat (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/56), decided:
(b) that there was no need at present to amend any
of the existing provisions of the guidelines for halon fire extinguisher
conversion projects; and
(c) to note that the Fund Secretariat and the
Implementing Agencies would develop a joint paper proposing an addition to the
guidelines to address capital and operating costs.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/64, Decision
19/33, para. 58(b, c).
The
Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) that priority funding should be given for the
preparation of projects in the halon fire extinguisher subsector in its
business planning for 1997;
(b) that, as an interim measure before the
Committee took a decision on whether or not to endorse the agreement on
eligible cost categories in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/66 as an addition to
the guidelines, the Implementing Agencies should use those categories in
preparing projects for the halon fire extinguisher subsector for submission to
the next meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/72, Decision
20/46, para. 69).
(Supporting
document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/66).
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