Having considered the comments and recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/4, para. 14), the Executive Committee decided:
(a) To note the draft 2002 business plan of UNEP contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/8 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/8/Add.1;
(b) Also to note with appreciation the reorientation designed to achieve and sustain compliance, promote a greater sense of country“ownership”, and implement the agreed Executive Committee framework for strategic planning;
(c) To maintain the Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) in principle in the final business plan;
(d) To request that funds approved annually for the CAP but not spent 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) To agree to the completion dates indicated in Annex II to the present report for the submission of country programme/RMPs;
(f) To request UNEP to submit country programme/RMPs before requesting funding for any projects/activities contained therein, while indicating that the Executive Committee would consider requests for funding for one year of institutional strengthening for new Parties to the Protocol;
(g) Also to request UNEP to provide letters from countries for all activities included in its final business plan for 2002.