Decision 47/5

November 2005
Business planning and work programmes - policies

Following a discussion, which included a clarification on the amounts of controlled substances to be addressed and the data discrepancies in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/47/6 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/47/7, the Executive Committee decided:

  1. To adopt the 2006-2008 model three-year phase-out plan as a flexible guide for resource planning for the 2006-2008 triennium;
  2. To urge Article 5 countries with approved but not implemented projects and the cooperating bilateral and implementing agencies to accelerate the pace of implementation during the 2006-2008 triennium;
  3. To urge bilateral and implementing agencies to work with those countries that had been identified as needing immediate assistance to achieve the 2007 and 2010 Montreal Protocol’s phase-out targets and to include activities in their 2006-2008 business plans as appropriate; and
  4. To request the Secretariat to present an updated model three-year rolling phase-out plan for 2007-2010 to the last meeting in 2006 to provide guidance, as relevant, for the preparation of the 2007-2009 business plan of the Multilateral Fund.