National
Ozone unit

LAUNCHING “ODS ALTERNATIVES SURVEY” PROJECT
15.03.2016

The Project “ODS Alternatives Survey” to be jointly implemented by the National ozone Unit of the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was launched at the first Stakeholders Meeting in Tsaghkadzor, Kotayk Province on 14-15 March 2016.   

During the meeting the Project team consisting of the National Ozone Unit coordinator, L.Ghahramanyan and experts H.Karapetyan, A.Astatryan, Ar.Astsatryan, A.Khachatryan and S.Grigoryan presented the areas of ODS and ODS-alternatives application, commonly used ODS alternatives, demand for ODS and ODS alternatives in Article 5 countries, data collection process, barriers existing in Armenia and other relevant issues to the participating RAC technicians from the provinces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Customs Service), Ministry of Internal Affairs (Road Police) and Ministry of Emergency Situations (Fire Fighting Service).   

The meeting was concluded by the agreement reached between the project team and the participants on the continuous fruitful cooperation and data exchange, as well as developing a reliable database from the data collected.