Decision 48/8

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To endorse the 2006-2008 business plan of UNIDO, as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/10 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/10/Corr.1, as amended below, while noting that endorsement denoted neither approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels:
   1. To maintain projects for countries that had received support for achieving the 2005 methyl bromide control measures during the 2006-2008 triennium in the light of commitments to advance a country’s methyl bromide phase‑out significantly before the year 2015;
   2. To remove project preparation leading to a compressor project in Iran that had received support for a CFC phase-out agreement;
   3. To add a terminal phase-out management plan for Guinea to the 2007 business plan of UNIDO;
   4. To remove ODS destruction activities;
   5. To withdraw the HCFC activities with the understanding that those activities would be considered at the first meeting of the Executive Committee in 2008, provided that:
      1. Compliance priorities of Article 5 countries for the triennium had been addressed and there were enough funds remaining from the prioritized activities;
      2. The proposed HCFC surveys were in accordance with Executive Committee guidance, based on lessons learned from the approved UNDP surveys and Germany’s bilateral study in China;
      3. When considering the allocation of the funds remaining for HCFC activities, the Executive Committee would take into account the level of funding approved by decision XVII/40 of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties;
2. To approve the performance indicators for UNIDO, as contained in Annex IV to the present report, while setting a target of 29 for the number of annual programmes approved and a phase-out target for individual projects of 1,119.4 ODP tonnes for 2006; and
3. To request UNIDO to work in coordination with the Secretariat to provide a target for policy and regulatory assistance to countries requesting it to reflect the efforts it planned to undertake in that regard within its approved projects and/or multi-year agreements as appropriate.