The Executive Committee decided to request the implementing agencies to finalize their 1999 business plans, taking into account the following considerations:
(a) The total amount not allocated in the consolidated draft 1999 business plans should remain unallocated but be assigned to the production sector as a priority;
(b) No agency should be allowed to submit projects in excess of its allocation;
(c) The allocation for methyl bromide in the business plans should be considered adequate, but this did not prejudge any decision on the level of funding for the two large-scale investment projects in Brazil and Argentina;
(d) In view of the large number of projects that could conceivably raise policy issues, the Committee should accelerate the resolution of the relevant policy issues, as well as guidelines still pending;
(e) To request the Secretariat to determine the level of ODS phase-out targets for each agency for each year for future business plans based on progress reports and to ask the implementing agencies to explain any deviation from that level;
(f) That UNEP should adjust its business plan:
(i) To reduce the number of regional halon banking management plans to one pilot programme;
(ii) To rationalize the number of methyl bromide activities and to provide more information on the delivery mechanism, output and content of such activities.