42nd Meeting - Montreal, March-April 2004

Document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/12:  presents the findings and recommendations resulting from evaluation missions to PR China, DPR Korea and India in January 2004. 

a) Production sector phase-out results planned and achieved;
b) Measurements in Metric and ODP tonnes and gross versus net saleable production
c) Advantages of the sector compared to the project by project approach
d) Policies established in the countries to close and/or reduce gradually CFC production
e) Technical assistance to enterprises, capacity development and awareness building
f) Support extended for the development and production of substitutes for CFCs
g) Sustainability of the phase-out, prices and supply/demand for CFCs and substitutes
h) Prospects for further compliance and early phase-out scenarios
i) National and international audits and their focus, methods and schedules

To clarify that the maximum allowable CFC production in China should be planned and verified [in metric tonnes (MT) as stipulated in the agreement/in ODP tonnes, as calculated in the original sector plan and the following annual work programmes and verification reports];
2. To request the Government of India, in cooperation with the World Bank, to plan and verify allowable CFC production in India as so-called gross production, that means without deducting handling and filling losses;
3. To request the Government of China and India to clarify, in cooperation with the Ozone Secretariat, differences of CFC-production data reported under Article 7 to the Ozone Secretariat and in the verification reports;
4. To request the Secretariat, in cooperation with the World Bank and UNIDO, to review the verification guidelines adopted by the 32nd meeting of the Executive Committee, with respect to the following;
(a) How to include movements of CTC to and from CFC producers and internal transfers of CTC in CFC producing companies in the verification reports, annual progress reports and work programmes, in view of the intense pressure on CTC management in the enterprises caused by the phase–out of CFC-11 and CFC-12. 
(b) That for countries with CFC and CTC production sector phase-out agreements (China and India), the verification missions should be closely coordinated and possibly be merged;
(c) That where plants co-produce CFC-11 and CFC-12, it may be necessary to determine whether the practice of counting unit ratios of CTC and AHF and comparing them with previous years is needed;
(d) Whether the inspection and verification of the daily log books should continue to serve mainly as a back-up to clarify inconsistencies observed; and
(e) Whether reported measurements of CFC-production should be rounded to the nearest 100 kg, and then be compared to the more accurate financial and sales records.
5. To request the World Bank and Governments of China and India to revise the presentation of technical assistance activities in future annual reports and work programmes for the CFC production sector by:
(a) Showing separately activities to maintain the national administrative infrastructure to manage the process, activities for awareness building, and technical advice of direct interest to the enterprises (either individually or collectively); and
(b) Specifying clearly the objectives, related outputs and inputs including planned and actual expenditures; and
6. To commend that the Governments of China and India, in cooperation with the World Bank, consider the recommendations as presented in paras. 14 and 15 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/12.