Decision 97/4

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the reconciliation of the 2024 accounts contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/97/6;
2. To request the Treasurer to deduct from future transfers at the 97th meeting:
   1. To UNDP, US $845,811, on account of income from interest reported in its 2024 final accounts that had yet to be offset against new approvals;
   2. To UNEP, US $136,654, on account of income from interest reported in its 2024 final accounts that had yet to be offset against new approvals;
3. To request UNDP to make the following adjustments in its 2025 accounts: US $6,018 representing expenditure that had been reflected in its 2024 progress report but not in the final accounts and US $148,798 representing expenditure that had been overstated in its final accounts;
4. To request UNIDO to make the following adjustment in its 2025 accounts: US $2,279,213 representing income that had been recorded in 2024;
5. To note that the following 2024 outstanding reconciling items would be updated prior to the 99th meeting by relevant implementing agencies:
   1. Differences of US $67,642 in income and US $403,024 in expenditure, between the progress report and the final accounts of UNIDO;
   2. Differences of US $97,253 in income between the progress report and the final accounts of the World Bank;
6. To note the standing reconciling items as follows:
   1. For UNDP, for unspecified projects, in the amounts of US $68,300 and US $29,054;
   2. (For the World Bank, for the following projects:
      1. Bilateral cooperation projects of Japan (THA/PHA/68/TAS/158 in the amount of US $342,350; and VIE/PHA/76/TAS/71, VIE/PHA/84/INV/75 and VIE/PHA/87/INV/79 in the amount of US $261,402), Sweden (THA/HAL/29/TAS/120 in the amount of US $225,985) and the United States of America (CPR/PRO/44/INV/425 in the amount of US $5,375,000 and CPR/PRO/47/INV/439 in the amount of US $5,375,000); and
      2. The Thailand chiller project (THA/REF/26/INV/104), in the amount of US $1,198,946.