42nd Meeting - Montreal, March-April 2004

Document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/14:  contains reports on two approved projects to phase out the consumption of methyl bromide in certain applications in Guatemala and Honduras. 

At their Fifteenth Meeting the Parties adopted decisions for Guatemala and Honduras respectively, approving an action plan for each country containing proposed reductions in consumption of methyl bromide to enable the country to return to compliance.  The phase-out schedule in each of the action plans differs from the schedule contained in the relevant project approved by the Executive Committee.  In each case the revised schedules extend the phase-out over a longer period. 

The Committee may wish to:

 

1. Consider adopting the following modification to the methyl bromide phase-out schedule for Guatemala proposed in Decision 38/42 (b): 
The phase-out schedule will achieve a total reduction in consumption of 502.6 ODP tonnes by 2008; of this amount 100 ODP tonnes will be reduced by non-Article 5 companies.  Furthermore, 181.4 ODP tonnes will be reduced in 2003, 36 ODP tonnes in 2004, 132 ODP tonnes in 2005, 25 ODP tonnes in 2006, 46 ODP tonnes in 2007, and an additional 52.1 ODP tonnes in 2008, in order to enable Guatemala to meet the MB freeze and the 20 per cent reduction targets in 2005 and 2007, respectively. 

 

2. Consider adopting the following modification to the methyl bromide phase-out schedule for Honduras proposed in Decision 37/50: 
The phase-out schedule will achieve a total reduction in consumption of 213 ODP tonnes by the end of 2005.  Furthermore, 47.3 ODP tonnes will be reduced in the calendar year 2003, 64.0 ODP tonnes in 2004 and additional 98.6 ODP tonnes in 2005, in order to enable Honduras to meet the MB freeze and the 20 per cent reduction target by the end of 2005.