Having considered the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/6, paragraph 47), the Executive Committee decided:
(a) To take note of the document on project implementation delays (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/17);
(b) Also to take note with appreciation of the reports submitted to the Secretariat on projects with implementation delays provided by Belgium, France, Germany and the four implementing agencies;
(c) To note that the Secretariat and the implementing agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessment of status, i.e., progress, some progress, or no progress, and report and notify governments as required, including the Quimica Andina foam project in Bolivia (BOL/FOA/28/INV/10) on which no progress had been reported;
(d) To partially cancel the umbrella TCA project in Argentina (ARG/SOL/28/INV/91) under World Bank implementation due to the inability of three of the enterprises to participate in the project, noting that none of the funds had been disbursed for those enterprises and no ODS phase-out achieved;
(e) To request the Secretariat to send letters of possible cancellation for the Chilean auction project (CHI/MUS/26/INV/37) and the Army company component of the umbrella foam project in Egypt (EGY/FOA/22/INV/64);
(f) To cancel the following projects by mutual agreement and request UNIDO to investigate the possibility of redeploying the equipment from those cancelled projects to the sector plan, and to adjust the future work programmes in the light of the redeployment as part of UNIDO’s request for the second tranche of the sector plan:
(i) Conversion from CFC-12 to isobutane technologies and products at the compressor factory of Hangli Refrigeration Ltd., in Hangzhou, China (CPR/REF/26/INV/256), implemented by UNIDO, noting that US $674,109 of the net US $861,000 approved for the project had been disbursed up to 2002 with no direct phase-out of ODS consumption, since this was a compressor project;
(ii) Phasing out of ODS at the refrigerator plant of Bole Electric Appliance Group in China (CPR/REF/23/INV/222), implemented by UNIDO, noting that US $1,145,659 of the net US $1,469,029 approved for the project had been disbursed up to 2002 with 132 ODP tonnes phased out;
(g) Also to cancel the following projects by mutual agreement:
(i) Project preparation for phasing out of ODS use in Pliva Pharmaceuticals in Croatia (CRO/ARS/36/PRP/16), implemented by Germany, noting that the funds approved for the project (US $16,500 plus US $2,145 of support cost) should be offset against future approvals for Germany;
(ii) Conversion from halon 1211 to ABC dry chemical powder and carbon dioxide in portable extinguishers at Real Value Appliances Ltd in India (IND/HAL/18/INV/60), implemented by the World Bank, noting that no funds had been disbursed of the US $251,736 approved for the project with 462 ODP tonnes phased out of ODS consumption on the part of the enterprise concerned;
(iii) H.K. Foam. Phase-out of CFC-11 by conversion to methylene chloride in the manufacture of flexible polyurethane foam in the United Republic of Tanzania (URT/FOA/26/INV/10), implemented by UNDP, noting that US $7,957 of the US $113,700 approved for the project had been disbursed up to 2002 with no phase-out of ODS consumption.
(h) To note the completion of the activity to develop a handbook on the practical use of policy instruments (GLO/SEV/21/TAS/130), implemented by UNEP;
(i) To request the implementing agencies to reimburse to the Multilateral Fund all remaining balances from cancelled projects, as well as those funds from cancelled umbrella projects.