Having considered the Secretariat’s report on discrepancy between the data reported by a Party to the Ozone Secretariat and the data presented by the Party to the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/57), the Executive Committee decided:
(a) To note the statement by the representative of the Ozone Secretariat that the formats for reporting data under Article 7 of the Protocol could be revised only by a decision of the Meeting of the Parties.
(b) To request the Fund Secretariat to prepare for the Committee’s consideration at its Twenty‑second Meeting a revised paper that would clearly describe the two parallel streams of data reporting that existed under the Montreal Protocol, bearing in mind any decision that might be taken on the matter by the Eighth Meeting of the Parties;
(c) That there was a need to explore ways to reconcile and harmonize the two streams in order, on the one hand, to avoid duplication of work and reporting, and, on the other, to ensure greater transparency of data provided.