On the recommendation of the Sub-Committee on Financial Matters, the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to approve the revised 1996 budget for the Fund Secretariat and the proposed budgets for 1997 and 1998 (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/18/4) as contained in Annex II on the understanding that the necessary resources would need to be approved at the last meeting of the Executive Committee in 1996; and
(b) that, in the event that the resources allocated under any one budget component were not fully expended, the remaining resources should be used for Secretariat staff training programmes and that these should not be restricted to technical training. In future budgets, an explicit provision for staff training should be made.