Having noted the recommendations by the Sub-Committee on Project Review (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/5, para. 42), the Executive Committee decided:
(a) That three Executive Committee meetings should be held in 1997;
(b) That the first meeting, to be held from 17 to 19 February 1997, in accordance with decision 20/54, should consider the implementing agencies’ 1997 business plans and work programmes, and any residual projects from 1996;
(c) That the second and third meetings could be held close to the dates of the meetings of the Open ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and the Meeting of the Parties, respectively, with the precise dates to be determined later in the year, but if the Twenty-second Meeting was held in the same venue as the meeting of the Open-ended Working Group, this would not constitute a precedent and subsequent meetings of the Executive Committee would normally be held in Montreal;
(d) To request the Secretariat to show some flexibility with regard to the submission date of the UNEP 1997 work programme by reducing the deadline to four weeks before the start of the meeting.