43rd Meeting - Geneva, 5-9 July 2004

The Executive Committee decided:

(a) To note the report on the status of the 2004 business plans as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/5 and

Add.1, and the fact that US $94 million remained to be submitted for 22 new multi-year agreements and 176 other projects contained in the 2004 business plans;

(b) To urge bilateral and implementing agencies with projects in the 2004 business plans for countries at risk of non-compliance to submit those projects to the 44th Meeting as a matter of urgency, and to consider the projects identified in Table 3 of UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/5 as priority projects; and

(c) To request the Secretariat:
(i) To send a letter, in conjunction with the implementing agencies responsible for institutional strengthening and the Ozone Secretariat, to countries at risk of non-compliance urging them to put forward projects through the implementing and bilateral agencies as soon as possible;
(ii) To prepare a document, to be submitted to the 44th Meeting of the Executive Committee, on a potential procedure for intersessional approval of projects for countries at risk of non-compliance, when such projects were in the business plan for a given year and there was no disagreement between the Secretariat and the implementing agency; and
(iii) To include in the document to be submitted to the 44th Meeting of the Executive Committee an examination of the reasons for the non submission of projects for countries at risk of non compliance.