Decision 57/13

Following the discussions, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the information on annual tranches of multi-year agreements (MYAs) submitted to the Secretariat by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, and the World Bank as contained in the document on annual tranche submission delays (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/14);
2. To note that 58 of the 90 annual tranches of MYAs due for submission had been submitted on time to the 57^th Meeting;
3. That letters should be sent to the relevant implementing agencies and applicable Article 5 countries regarding the annual tranches that had not been submitted to two or more consecutive Meetings, as indicated in Table 1 in Annex VIII to the present report, 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 58^th Meeting, provided that sufficient progress had been made;
4. That letters should be sent to the relevant bilateral and implementing agencies and applicable Article 5 countries regarding the annual tranches that had been due for submission to the 57^th Meeting, as indicated in Table 2 in Annex VIII to the present report, with the reasons stated for the delay, and to encourage bilateral and 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 58^th Meeting, provided that sufficient progress had been made; and
5. To encourage:
   1. The Government of India to submit its CFC production sector requests to the 58^th Meeting;
   2. The Government of Costa Rica to expedite the implementation of the existing tranches of its methyl bromide phase-out plan, in order to submit the next tranche for approval as soon as possible;
   3. The Governments of Côte d’Ivoire and the Maldives to expedite the implementation of their terminal phase-out management plans in order to submit the 2009 annual tranches for review as soon as possible;
   4. The Government of the Dominican Republic to submit a complete verification report of its national phase-out plan to the 58th Meeting.