Having considered the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Project Review (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/19, para. 56), the Executive Committee decided to approve the Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) budget for UNEP, as contained in Annex VI to the present report, with the following conditions:
(a) The use of this budget and related CAP employees shall not be used for implementation of projects approved before 2002;
(b) UNEP will submit a preliminary report to the 38th meeting of the Executive Committee on the use of the programme support cost, with a detailed report to be submitted at the 40th meeting in 2003;
(c) UNEP should also report to the Executive Committee during 2002 on the progress made in the implementation of the CAP programme, specifically on the lessons learned during the first steps of CAP implementation;
(d) Funds approved annually for the CAP but not spent should be returned to the Multilateral Fund for re programming at the second meeting of the Executive Committee in the year following that for which they had been approved;
(e) Consideration by the Executive Committee should be given to benefit of developing a unified budget in future years, and UNEP should provide a proposal for such a budget at the 38th meeting of the Executive Committee.