Decision 46/4

After discussion concerning the phase-out of Brazil’s CFC production, followed by the need to cover in the report the status of and prospects for compliance for all Article 5 countries, including those that had not received funding from the Multilateral Fund, the need to focus on countries in non-compliance, to consider the 2007 requirement to reduce CFCs to 85 per cent of the baseline, and also the need for the timely submission of data, as well as data on the implementation of country programmes, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the report on status/prospects of Article 5 countries in achieving compliance with the initial and intermediate control measures of the Montreal Protocol as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/46/6 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/46/6/Add.1;
2. To note that Brazil had phased out its CFC production;
3. To request the Secretariat to reformat the report to focus on actual and potential compliance issues, to address the 85 per cent reduction for CFCs in 2007, and to include a report on all Article 5 countries;
4. To encourage bilateral and implementing agencies to provide requests for project proposals to the 47^th Meeting, or in their 2006 business plans, that would address the following countries at risk of non-compliance:
   1. For halons: Kyrgyzstan and Somalia (when the conditions appeared conducive to a sustainable operation);
   2. For CTC: Nepal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda; and
5. To urge bilateral and implementing agencies implementing institutional strengthening projects to continue their efforts to obtain data from National Ozone Units (NOUs) on the implementation of their country programmes and to inform NOUs of the requirement to provide all data necessary in order to receive the maximum two-year renewal of institutional strengthening.