Decision 55/8

55th Meeting of the Executive Committee
July 2008
Africa | Albania | Algeria | Bahamas | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Barbados | Botswana | Brunei Darussalam | Cabo Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Chile | Comoros | Croatia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Djibouti | Equatorial Guinea | Ethiopia | Fiji | Gabon | Global | Grenada | Guatemala | Guinea-Bissau | Kiribati | Lesotho | Mali | Micronesia (Federated States of) | Myanmar | Nicaragua | Niger | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Republic of Moldova | Rwanda | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Sao Tome and Principe | Senegal | Somalia | Suriname | Syrian Arab Republic | Togo | Turkmenistan | United Republic of Tanzania | Vanuatu | Yemen | Zimbabwe | Sudan
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UNEP progress reports | Implementation delays and status reports

Subsequent to the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

  1. To note UNEP’s progress report contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/12;
  2. To note that nine UNEP projects had been classified as having implementation delays as indicated in Annex III to the present report, including four projects that had been so classified the previous year, and that a report on those projects should be submitted to the 56th Meeting;
  3. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56th Meeting for the following multi-year agreements: Bahrain (BAH/PHA/50/TAS/17), Bangladesh (BGD/PHA/42/TRA/16, BGD/PHA/42/TAS/18 and BGD/ARS/52/TAS/27), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC/PHA/49/TAS/23); Panama (PAN/PHA/50/TAS/27) and Paraguay (PAR/PHA/51/TAS/18);
  4. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56th Meeting for the following individual projects:
    1. Regional project for harmonization of legislative and regulatory mechanisms to improve monitoring and control of ODS consumption in English-speaking Africa (AFR/SEV/45/TAS/33);
    2. Customs manual under the global project on updating the customs training manual (GLO/SEV/48/TRA/274);
    3. Global project on study of challenges associated with halon banking in developing countries (GLO/HAL/52/TAS/281);
    4. Global technical assistance programme in the chiller sector (GLO/REF/48/TAS/275);
  5. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56th Meeting for the following individual TPMP preparation projects: Cape Verde (CBI/PHA/50/PRP/11), Central African Republic (CAF/PHA/49/PRP/14), Chad (CHD/PHA/48/PRP/12), Comoros (COI/PHA/47/PRP/11), Djibouti (DJI/PHA/48/PRP/11), Gabon (GAB/PHA/48/PRP/18), Guatemala (GUA/PHA/50/PRP/32), Mali (MLI/PHA/48/PRP/20), Moldova (MOL/PHA/48/PRP/16), Nicaragua (NIC/PHA/49/PRP/19), Niger (NER/PHA/48/PRP/18), Rwanda (RWA/PHA/48/PRP/11), Senegal (SEN/PHA/48/PRP/21), Togo (TOG/PHA/48/PRP/12), United Republic of Tanzania (URT/PHA/50/PRP/20) and Yemen (YEM/PHA/50/PRP/26);
  6. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56th Meeting on the following individual projects on institutional strengthening: Albania (ALB/SEV/49/INS/13), Algeria (ALG/SEV/48/INS/64), Barbados (BAR/SEV/46/INS/13), Bahamas (BHA/SEV/50/INS/13), Botswana (BOT/SEV/41/INS/08), Brunei Darussalam (BRU/SEV/43/INS/05). Cape Verde (CBI/SEV/50/INS/10), Croatia (CRO/SEV/47/INS/28), Djibouti (DJI/SEV/48/INS/09), Ethiopia (ETH/SEV/41/INS/12 and ETH/SEV/50/INS/16), Fiji (FIJ/SEV/50/INS/18), Gabon (GAB/SEV/50/INS/19), Grenada (GRN/SEV/50/INS/11, Guinea Bissau (GBS/SEV/50/INS/09), Kiribati (KIR/SEV/49/INS/05), Lesotho (LES/SEV/45/INS/09), Micronesia (FSM/SEV/49/INS/04), Moldova (MOL/SEV/48/INS/14), Myanmar (MYA/SEV/29/INS/02), Nicaragua (NIC/SEV/49/INS/20), Panama (PAN/SEV/44/INS/21), Paraguay (PAR/SEV/39/INS/13), Peru (PER/SEV/37/INS/31), Rwanda (RWA/SEV/50/INS/12), St Kitts and Nevis (STK/SEV/47/INS/08), Sao Tome and Principe (STP/SEV/50/INS/11), Somalia (SOM/SEV/36/INS/03 and SOM/SEV/44/INS/05), Sudan (SUD/SEV/42/INS/16), Suriname (SUR/SEV/50/INS/11), Togo (TOG/SEV/50/INS/14), Turkmenistan (TKM/SEV/46/INS/01), Vanuatu (VAN/SEV/36/INS/03) and Zimbabwe (ZIM/SEV/50/INS/34);
  7. To request that additional status reports be submitted to the 56th Meeting on the following individual RMP projects:
    1. Training of trainers in good refrigerant management practice and training of national technicians in Brunei Darussalam (BRU/REF/44/TRA/07);
    2. Training programme for customs officials and training for trainers and refrigeration technicians on good service practices in the Syrian Arab Republic (SYR/REF/29/TRA/47 and SYR/REF/29/TRA/49);
    3. End-users’ public awareness component of the RMP in Chile (CHI/REF/35/TAS/148);
  8. To request a status report on the country programme and TPMP preparation in Equatorial Guinea (EQG/SEV/49/CPG/01) for submission to the 56th Meeting;
  9. To request the Treasurer to offset the unobligated balances from UNEP’s 2007 Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) budget, amounting to US $163,341 plus project support costs of US $13,067, as required by decision 35/36(d) that established the CAP;
  10. To request UNEP not to use Multilateral Fund resources for activities to identify quarantine and pre-shipment (QPS) uses unless such activities were directly linked to assisting countries in assessing their Article 7 data and clearly understanding their non‑QPS usage*; and
  11. To request UNEP to provide responses at the 56th Meeting in the context of status reports to the questions of the Secretariat on the following projects: BRU/REF/44/TRA/07, GUA/REF/35/TAS/23 and PAN/REF/29/TAS/14.
Related annexes
Annex III to document 55/59, projects with implementation delays
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