Decision 63/4

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. With appreciation, the status reports on projects with implementation delays submitted to the Secretariat by the Governments of Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain and the four implementing agencies, addressed in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/63/6;
   2. That only 11 country programme (CP) reports for the year 2009 had been submitted through the web-based system, which had been initiated on 25 April 2007;
   3. The completion of 12 of the 26 projects with implementation delays;
   4. That the Secretariat and the bilateral and implementing agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessments (progress or some progress) and report to and notify governments and implementing agencies as required;
2. To request:
   1. The Secretariat to consult with the implementing agencies in order to ascertain why so few countries had submitted CP reports through the web-based portal and to report back to the Committee at its 64^th meeting;
   2. That CFC, CTC and halon be removed from the CP report format, as shown in Annex II to the present report, starting with the report on 2012 data due on 1 May 2013;
   3. The UNEP Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) to ascertain the reasons for which licensing systems in the Cook Islands, Haiti, Kiribati, Mauritania, the Federated States of Micronesia and Senegal were not operating satisfactorily and the countries’ plans to improve their operation; and why licensing systems in Ethiopia and Lesotho had not been established;
   4. Additional status reports on the projects listed in Annexes III and IV to the present report, as well as on the following project subject to an existing decision (decision 54/4(c)):

6. The Governments of France, Israel and Portugal to provide their reports on implementation delays to the 64^th meeting of the Executive Committee;
   3. To encourage the Government of Angola to deposit the instruments of ratification of the four outstanding amendments to the Montreal Protocol with the United Nations in New York as soon as possible and to encourage the Government of Guinea to continue its efforts to ratify the Copenhagen Amendment so as to enable it to access funding for HCFC phase-out, as required by decision 53/37; and
   4. To note the report by UNIDO on the results of its consultations with Kyrgyzstan on the 2009 business plans’ qualitative performance evaluations, in line with decision 61/17(d).