Decision 47/10

During the discussion, it was pointed out that countries that had difficulty in maintaining zero consumption and which had already submitted projects would be covered in the strategic plan that UNEP was requested to prepare. After an adjustment to ensure that the wording of the decision would correspond to that in previous decisions on the subject (decisions 18/22 and 44/38), the Executive Committee decided:

1. That Article 5 countries with zero halon baselines but a low level of documented installed halon inventories could submit project proposals to manage their halon stocks in accordance with the Executive Committee’s Interim Halon Banking Guidelines. The level of funding for such proposals should normally be between US $25,000 (as recommended in the Interim Halon Banking Guidelines) and US$ 50,000 (as per decision 44/8), depending on the level of the inventory;
2. That Article 5 countries with zero methyl bromide, CTC and/or TCA baselines that were experiencing compliance difficulties with respect to one or more of those substances could be provided with assistance under UNEP’s Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP);
3. To request UNEP to use funds from the 2006 CAP budget to provide assistance to countries in accordance with paragraph (b) of the present decision;
4. Also to request UNEP to submit to the 48^th Meeting a strategic plan indicating which countries with zero baselines it proposed to assist, the justification or criteria used for selecting those countries, the type of assistance to be provided and the extent to which the activities would be additional to the usual work of the CAP;
5. To request bilateral and implementing agencies providing assistance in the preparation and implementation of new terminal phase-out management plans to work towards ensuring that, within the approved levels of funding, project activities included support for developing and implementing licensing systems or import controls for methyl bromide, CTC and/or TCA in cases where there were zero baselines for one or more of those substances but there was a risk of future consumption; and
6. That the Executive Committee would consider, at its 48^th Meeting, the need for any additional support to the CAP that might be required to implement the proposed strategic plan.