Decision 45/59

Report on the recommendations from the 2004 evaluation and review of the financial mechanism of the Montreal Protocol (follow-up to Decision 44/60)

On the basis of the group’s report, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the report contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/45/51 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/45/51/Add.1;
2. To reclassify pre-session meeting documentation as General Distribution from the 46^th Meeting onwards in the languages produced for the meetings, while restricting access to any project documents that a Party requested to be classified as such until the Executive Committee’s consideration of the matter;
3. To consider at its 46^th Meeting whether a further review of the weighting of the quantitative performance indicators was warranted based on their application in the evaluation of the implementing agencies’ 2004 business plans to be submitted to the 46^th Meeting;
4. To request the Secretariat:
   1. To prepare a draft outline of an Executive Committee primer to be considered at the 46^th Meeting of the Executive Committee, being the basis of the draft primer to be presented to the 47^th Meeting, noting that the primer should include, inter alia, a summary of relevant decisions, procedures related to the approval of ODS phase-out projects, and rules and practices of the Executive Committee;
   2. To prepare a paper addressing the feasibility and desirability of extending the current performance indicators to bilateral implementing agencies for submission to the 46^th Meeting of the Executive Committee;
5. To request the implementing agencies to provide the Fund Secretariat with information on how to avoid future delays as part of a lessons-learned document to be prepared by the Secretariat for consideration at the 46^th Meeting of the Executive Committee;
6. To request the Treasurer:
   1. To circulate to the Secretariat and implementing agencies prior to each Executive Committee meeting a ledger indicating when promissory notes are transferred, received and encashed;
   2. To report on progress in documenting the Treasurer’s internal procedures and practices annually until they had been fully documented;
   3. To provide a detailed report once a year and interim reports at other times, as appropriate, on quality control measures to improve the accuracy of recordkeeping;
7. To forward its assessment report on the recommendations in the 2004 evaluation and review of the financial mechanism of the Montreal Protocol (contained in Annex XVII to the present report) for consideration at the 25^th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group.