Decision 55/3

Taking into account the information contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/5 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/5/Add.1, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the report on the status of the 2008 business plans as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/5 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/5/Add.1 and the fact that US $41.4 million in activities required for compliance had not been submitted to the 55^th Meeting, and that the value of forward commitments approved at the 55^th Meeting exceeds the value in the 2008-2010 business plan of the Multilateral Fund by US $499,306;
2. To note the information on annual tranches of multi-year agreements submitted to the Secretariat by Canada, Italy, Spain, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, and the World Bank as contained in the document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/5;
3. To request bilateral and implementing agencies to submit those activities required for compliance in the 2008 business plans to the 56^th Meeting;
4. To note that 31 of the 52 annual tranches of multi-year agreements due for submission had been submitted on time to the 55^th Meeting whereas 21 of them had not been submitted;
5. That letters should be sent to the relevant implementing agencies and applicable Article 5 countries for the annual tranches, as indicated in Table 1 of Annex II to the present report, which had not been submitted to two consecutive Meetings, with the reasons stated for the delay, and to encourage implementing agencies and the relevant Article 5 Governments to take actions to expedite the implementation of the approved tranches, so that tranches due for submission could be presented to the 56^th Meeting provided that sufficient progress had been made;
6. That letters should be sent to the relevant implementing agencies and applicable Article 5 countries for the annual tranches, as indicated in Table 2 of Annex II to the present report, which had been due for submission to the 55^th Meeting, with the reasons indicated for the delay, and to encourage implementing agencies and the relevant Article 5 Governments to submit those annual tranches to the 56^th Meeting, provided that sufficient progress had been made;
7. To encourage the Governments of Bangladesh, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Uruguay to expedite the implementation of their first tranches of TPMPs in order to submit the next tranche as soon as possible; and
8. To note that the level of annual tranches approved at the 55^th Meeting amounted to US $5,111,686 and, as a result, the total level of commitments for the period 2009-2014 would amount to US $138.2 million.