The National CFC Consumption Phase out Plan (NCCoPP) is India's final CFC phase-out project in the RAC Servicing Sector. The project aims to phase-out CFC consumption in this sector by 1st January 2010 in compliance with the Montreal Protocol schedules. The project's main scope is on training of refrigeration servicing sector technicians in handling alternative refrigerants and containing CFC, when servicing domestic and small airconditioning equipment. It also covers training for Mobile Air-Conditioning (MAC), Open Type Compressor (OTC) and specifically targets the Railways as a key institutional user of CFC refrigerants. The project adopts a multi-pronged approach to achieve its targets. In addition to training, it includes equipment support, awareness building and information dissemination, and customs support components. Switzerland is responsible for development of training materials, identification of new training cells and implementation of training activities in different parts of the country. The infrastructure built for training shall also support the identification of equipment needs for the equipment support scheme. On behalf of the Swiss Government, the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) has mandated INFRAS Consulting Group, Zurich as executing agency for programme implementation during the project implementation period from 2004 to 2009. NCCoPP takes over from the Indo-Swiss Human and Institutional Development in Ecological Refrigeration (HIDECOR) project. The HIDECOR operation, initiated in 1998, was geographically restricted to selected states and the target group was limited to Micro and Small and Medium-sized service Enterprises in the RAC sector. NCCoPP covers teh entire territory of India. It aims to encourage good servicing practices particularly among smaller and medium size refrigeration service enterprises. In 2008 the project series has received an exemplary project recognitionfrom UNEP on occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. More information on the project is available on the NCCoPP web page .
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