Having considered the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/4, para. 22), the Executive Committee decided:
(a) To note with appreciation UNEP’s progress report contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/12;
(b) To request UNEP to provide the 35th meeting with additional status reports, in the context of its report on projects with implementation delays, on the institutional strengthening projects for which there had been delay in providing UNEP with progress and financial reports, including those in Dominica, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uganda, and Western Samoa, while expressing concern that, for the second year, institutional strengthening projects in Papua New Guinea and Uganda had been so classified;
(c) To note that UNEP had 88 projects classified with implementation delays, including 19 projects that had been so classified in 2000, and that a report on those projects would be submitted to the 35th meeting;
(d) Also to note that UNEP had confirmed that the following documents had been completed as planned:
(i)“Support to a national workshop on refrigeration in Kenya” (KEN/REF/10/TRA/05);
(ii)“Preparation of how-to-crop manual on adopting methyl bromide alternatives for cut flowers” (GLO/FUM/29/TAS/187);
(iii)“Develop a handbook on the practical use of policy instruments” (GLO/SEV/21/TAS/130);
(iv)“Technical sourcebook of methyl bromide alternatives” (GLO/FUM/23/TAS/150);
(v)“Update technology sourcebooks and quality review updated material” (GLO/SEV/16/TAS/76);
(vi)“Halon bank management case study logbook” (GLO/HAL/12/TAS/56);
(e) To note that UNEP indicated that it would provide a completed copy of the brochure for the“Update existing technical brochure series to include 1994/95 TOC data” project (GLO/SEV/21/TAS/127) at the 35th meeting, and that the brochure would include information on 1998/1999 TOC data;
(f) Also to note that a CD Rom had been produced for the project“Prepare an inventory and assessment of environmentally sound and economically viable technologies and know-how conducive to phase out of ODS” (GLO/SEV/19/TAS/106), but that the database portion remained, which UNEP indicated would be completed by the 36th meeting;
(g) To request UNEP to report on the development of RMPs for Bolivia (the RMP should be completed by 1 January 2002), Brunei (the memorandum of understanding had been signed), Haiti (national and international consultants had been identified), Liberia (national and international consultants had been identified), Maldives, Morocco (no Memorandum of Understanding had yet been signed), and Togo, at each meeting until the RMPs had been prepared and submitted to the Executive Committee;
(h) Also to request the Secretariat to send a letter to Pacific Island Countries (PICs):
(i) Noting the ongoing and substantial delays with the Regional Pacific Island Strategy;
(ii) Also noting with appreciation the participation of the PICs in the UNEP/South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Regional Workshop for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, held in Apia, Samoa, in April 2001, to identify the most appropriate means of facilitating the compliance of PICs with their Montreal Protocol obligations;
(iii) Urging the PICs to submit their National Compliance Action Plans to UNEP by September 2001, as agreed at that Workshop;
(i) To note that UNEP would report to the 35th meeting of the Executive Committee on the project’s status. If no progress was reported, the 35th meeting of the Executive Committee would consider alternative means of implementing those activities.