The Executive Committee decided:
(a) To request the Secretariat to prepare, for consideration by the Executive Committee at its Eighteenth Meeting, draft guidelines for halon banking based on activities at a regional, country or enterprise level, which could include requirements for a regulatory framework, taking into account information provided by the Halon Technical Options Committee and any experience with this issue that Parties might make available to it;
(b) That projects would be evaluated in the light of the guidelines referred to in subparagraph (a) above;
(c) To defer approval of the five halon-banking proposals before the Committee pending the approval of those guidelines.