The Executive Committee, having considered the 1996 UNEP work programme and the comments and recommendations of the Secretariat thereon (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/9 and Corr.1), together with the related parts of the report of the Sub-Committee on Project Review (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/5, paras. 38‑40), decided:
(a) To note that the proposal for US $109,800 to prepare an inventory and assessment of environmentally sound and economically viable technologies and know-how conducive to phase-out of ozone-depleting substances had not been contained in the UNEP business plan approved by the Executive Committee at its Eighteenth Meeting but had been called for by the Seventh Meeting of the Parties by its decision VII/22;
(b) Bearing in mind, however, that some elements of the activity referred to in subparagraph (a) above went beyond UNEP’s core clearing-house functions, to approve the sum of US $50,000 for it;
(c) That any further activities undertaken by UNEP should be financed through a reprioritization of its core funding; and
(d) To approve the 1996 UNEP work programme, as amended by the present decision, at a level of US $3,060,718, comprising US $2,708,600 and 13 per cent support costs of US $352,118, as indicated in Annex III to this report.