Decision 53/19

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve funding year 2 for Phase II of the institutional strengthening project for Tonga at the level of US $30,000 for one year, on the understanding that only US $6,566 would be disbursed until the Government of Tonga had submitted Article 7 data for 2006, had appointed a full-time ODS officer and enacted a licensing system for ODS and to express to the Government concerned the views contained in Annex XXI to the present report;
2. To approve the regional customs enforcement network for Africa for one year only for UNEP at the level of funding of US $160,000 plus support costs on the understanding that:
   1. It was without prejudice to future funding approvals for the remaining year proposed for this project;
   2. That disbursement would take place only when UNEP had provided the Secretariat with letters from the 38 countries confirming their interest and commitment of their governments’ customs representatives to this network; and
   3. UNEP and the Government of France would prepare a joint report on the output of the network’s first year of operation, with an emphasis on making its operations sustainable into the future;
3. To defer consideration of the intelligence-led enforcement support for the Regional Ozone Network for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and to request UNEP to resubmit a more comprehensive proposal to the Executive Committee at a future Meeting;
4. To request UNEP to implement the project to translate and outreach existing Montreal Protocol policy and technical documents into Russian within their existing Compliance Assistance Programme budget pursuant to decision 47/24 by reprioritizing activities and funding.