Decision 40/17

40th Meeting of the Executive Committee
July 2003
BEL | DEU | UNDP | UNEP | UNIDO | World Bank
Implementation delays and status reports

Having considered the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/40/7, paragraph 49), the Executive Committee decided:

  1. To take note of the document on project implementation delays (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/40/23);
  2. To note with appreciation the reports submitted to the Secretariat on projects with implementation delays provided by Belgium, Germany and the four implementing agencies;
  3. Also to note that the Secretariat and implementing agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessment of status, i.e., progress, some progress, or no progress, and report to and notify governments as required;
  4. To take note of the information given by UNEP that the project on adapting existing audiovisual material to promote control of illegal trade in ODS had been completed (GLO/SEV/30/TAS/208);
  5. To assign the assessment of no progress for the following projects and note that the Secretariat would take the established actions:
    1. request the World Bank to complete the Auction programme in Chile (CHI/MUS/26/INV/37) for the remaining enterprise and invite UNDP to submit a terminal commercial/domestic refrigeration project for Chile in 2004, noting that the RMP approval for Chile should result in the phase‑out of 186 ODP tonnes;
    2. Army Company component of the 11-enterprise foam project in Egypt (EGY/FOA/22/INV/64), implemented by UNDP, with a milestone of stopping CFC use by December 2003; and
    3. Kolinton refrigeration project in Nigeria (NIR/REF/26/INV/44), implemented by UNIDO, with a milestone of commissioning the equipment by 31 July 2003;
  6. To defer any decision on cancellation of the following two projects until the 41st Meeting:
    1. Salidor foam project in Morocco (MOR/FOA/23/INV/13), implemented by UNDP;
    2. Bonbino foam project in Morocco (MOR/FOA/25/INV/22), implemented by UNDP;
  7. To request the Secretariat to visit the LCD foam projects in Morocco as part of its visits to LCD projects mandated by Decision 39/52 and to report on its findings to the 41st Meeting;
  8. To cancel the following projects by mutual agreement;
  9. Handan Huisheng foam project in China (CPR/FOA/29/INV/323), implemented by the World Bank, noting that none of the US $522,207 (plus US $67,443 support costs) approved for the project had been disbursed and no ODS had been phased out;
  10. Nobough foam project in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRA/FOA/32/INV/75), implemented by UNDP, noting that US $179,055 (plus US $23,277 support costs) of the US $248,736 (plus US $32,336 support costs) approved for the project had been disbursed and that 32 ODP tonnes had been phased out; and
  11. Friobox foam project in Venezuela (VEN/FOA/31/INV/83), implemented by UNIDO, noting that US $8,815 (plus US $1,146 support costs) of the US $128,387 (plus US $16,690 support costs) approved for the project had been disbursed and 1.1 ODP tonnes had been phased out;
  12. Also to cancel the following project preparation activities implemented by UNIDO:
    1. for aerosol projects in Algeria (ALG/ARS/36/PRP/52), noting that no funds had been disbursed;
    2. for CTC solvent sector projects in Brazil (BRA/SOL/33/PRP/205), noting that US $3,183 (plus US $414 support costs) of the US $30,000 (plus US $3,900 support costs) approved for the activity had been disbursed;
    3. for soil fumigation projects in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRA/FUM/33/PRP/78), noting that US $5,147 (plus US $669 support costs) of the US $25,000 (plus US $3,250 support costs) approved for the activity had been disbursed;
    4. for commercial refrigeration projects in Lebanon (LEB/REF/36/PRP/47), noting that no funds had been disbursed;
    5. for commercial refrigeration projects in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (LIB/REF/33/PRP/11), noting that no funds had been disbursed;
    6. for solvent sector projects in Mexico (MEX/SOL/36/PRP/108), noting that no funds had been disbursed; and
    7. for a terminal commercial refrigeration project in Yemen (YEM/REF/36/PRP/14), noting that US $7,639 (plus US $993 support costs) of the US $10,000 (plus US $1,300 support costs) approved for the activity had been disbursed;
  13. To cancel the Adzen refrigeration project in Argentina (ARG/REF/19/INV/43) by mutual agreement between the World Bank and the Argentine Government, noting that none of the US $356,970 (plus US $46,406 support costs) approved for the project had been disbursed and no ODS had been phased out;
  14. To set the milestone of 31 January 2004 as the deadline for the relocation of the enterprise for the Chandra refrigeration project in India (IND/REF/19/INV/92), implemented by the World Bank; and
  15. To set the milestone of signature of the UNDP project document by the 42nd Meeting for the conversion from CFC-11 to HCFC-141b technology in the manufacture of rigid polyurethane foam project at Quimica Andina in Bolivia (BOL/FOA/28/INV/10), implemented by Belgium.