Decision 56/3

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The report on the status of the 2008 business plans as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/56/5 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/56/5/Add.1 and the fact that US $10.67 million in activities that were required for compliance had not been submitted to the 56^th Meeting, and that the value of forward commitments approved at the 56^th Meeting exceeded that in the 2008-2010 business plan of the Multilateral Fund by US $4,326,099;
   2. The information on annual tranches of multi-year agreements (MYAs) submitted to the Secretariat by Canada, Italy, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, and the World Bank as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/56/5;
   3. That 34 of the 64 annual tranches of MYAs due for submission had been submitted on time to the 56^th Meeting, but the remaining 30 had either not been submitted on time or were not being submitted to the 56^th Meeting;
2. That letters should be sent to the relevant implementing agencies and applicable Article 5 countries regarding the annual tranches which had not been submitted to two or three consecutive Meetings, as indicated in Table 1 in Annex II to the present report, with the reasons stated for the delay, and that implementing agencies and the relevant Article 5 Governments should be encouraged to take actions to expedite the implementation of the approved tranches so that tranches due for submission could be presented to the 57^th Meeting, provided that sufficient progress had been made;
3. That letters should be sent to the relevant implementing agencies and applicable Article 5 countries regarding the annual tranches which had been due for submission to the 56^th Meeting, as indicated in Table 2 in Annex II to the present report, with the reasons stated for the delay, and that implementing agencies and the relevant Article 5 Governments should be encouraged to take actions to expedite the implementation of the approved tranches so that tranches due for submission could be presented to the 57^th Meeting, provided that sufficient progress had been made;
4. To encourage the Governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to provide verification reports to the 57^th Meeting, and the Government of Serbia to expedite the implementation of the existing tranches of its national CFC phase-out plan, in order to submit the next tranche as soon as possible; and
5. To note that the level of annual tranches submitted for approval to the 56^th Meeting amounted to US $7,546,163 and, as a result, the total level of commitments including standard activities for the period 2009 to 2014 would amount to US $240.4 million.