Decision 55/7

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note UNDP’s progress report contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/11;
2. To request additional status reports on the following multi-year agreements that had been approved more than one year previously and for which there had been no disbursement: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC/PHA/49/INV/24), Grenada (GRN/PHA/49/INV/10), Paraguay (PAR/PHA/51/INV/17), Saint Kitts and Nevis (STK/PHA/48/TAS/09) and Uruguay (URU/PHA/50/INV/46);
3. To request additional status reports on the following multi-year agreements that had been approved more than one year previously and for which disbursement levels were less than 20 per cent: Bolivia (BOL/PHA/51/INV/29), Dominica (DMI/PHA/48/TAS/09), Panama (PAN/PHA/44/INV/22) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (STV/PHA/47/INV/11);
4. To note that UNDP would report to the 56^th Meeting concerning up to 21 projects with implementation delays contained in Annex III to the present report, including four classified as such in 2006;
5. With respect to the MDI project in Bangladesh (BGD/ARS/52/INV/26):
   1. To request an additional status report as the project document had not been signed;
   2. To note, with serious concern, the country’s inability to remain in compliance in the absence of timely action;
6. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56^th Meeting on the following institutional strengthening projects for which no disbursement had been reported: Lebanon (LEB/SEV/50/INS/64), Trinidad and Tobago (TRI/SEV/50/INS/21) and Uruguay (URU/SEV/49/INS/45);
7. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56^th Meeting on the following RMP activities: Barbados (BAR/REF/43/TAS/11 and BAR/REF/43/TAS/12), Cape Verde (CBI/REF/44/TAS/08), Guinea Bissau (GBS/REF/43/TAS/07), Haiti (HAI/REF/39/TAS/04 and HAI/REF/39/TAS/06), Honduras (HON/REF/44/TAS/15), Maldives (MDV/REF/38/TAS/05), Sierra Leone (SIL/REF/41/TAS/05 and SIL/REF/41/TAS/06), Sri Lanka (SRL/REF/32/TAS/15) and Suriname (SUR/REF/44/TAS/09 and SUR/REF/44/TAS/10);
8. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56^th Meeting on the following projects in the methyl bromide sector:
   1. Technical assistance to install alternatives and achieve compliance and phase‑out of methyl bromide in Fiji (FIJ/FUM/47/TAS/17);
   2. Technical assistance programme to install alternatives and phase-out all remaining non-QPS uses of methyl bromide in Malaysia (MAL/FUM/47/TAS/151);
   3. Alternatives to methyl bromide for the structural fumigation project in Mexico (MEX/FUM/26/DEM/86);
   4. Demonstration project in Sri Lanka (SRL/FUM/27/DEM/13);
   5. Technical assistance for methyl bromide reductions and formulation of regional phase-out strategies for low-volume-consuming countries (AFR/FUM/38/TAS/32);
9. To request that an additional status report be submitted to the 56^th Meeting on the sectoral phase-out programme to establish a regional halon bank for West and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea) (AFR/HAL/37/TAS/31);
10. To note that UNDP would return the unobligated balances as at 31 December 2007 for the HCFC surveys approved at the 45^th Meeting; and
11. To request the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), through UNDP, to complete financially the phase-out of CFC-11 and CFC-12 mixture in the manufacture of insecticides by conversion to hydrocarbon propellant at Fadi SA in Burundi (BDI/ARS/35/INV/09).