Decision 57/4

57th Meeting of the Executive Committee
April 2009
Status of contributions and disbursements | Business planning and work programmes - policies

Following further discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

  1. To note the report on financial planning for the 2009-2011 triennium as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/5;
  2. To request that bilateral agencies specify the costs of planned activities in their annual business plans and attempt to remain within the estimates specified when submitting the relevant projects during the 2009-2011 triennium;
  3. To urge contributing Parties to make payments no later than 1 June each year in accordance with paragraph 7 of decision XI/6 of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties so as to enable full commitment of the US $490 million budget during the 2009-2011 triennium, as provided in paragraph 3 of decision XX/10 of the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties;
  4. To urge those contributing Parties with arrears from the 2006-2008 triennium to pay them during 2009 as they accounted for US $43.2 million of the US $73.9 million carry‑over from the 2006-2008 triennium;
  5. To request those contributing Parties that had not provided for accelerated encashment of promissory notes to consider allowing an accelerated encashment schedule or adjusting their encashment schedule for future promissory notes so that they corresponded to the year in which the contributions were due;
  6. To urge countries with economies in transition that had never paid to make their contributions to the Multilateral Fund for the 2009-2011 triennium;
  7. To adopt a resource allocation of US $106 million in 2009, US $181 million in 2010, and US $203 million in 2011;
  8. To consider the availability of cash flow for the 2011 budget at the first Meeting of the Executive Committee in 2011 in light of the collection of interest, the payment of contributions from countries that had not previously paid, and any losses due to non‑payment or the fixed-exchange-rate mechanism; and
  9. In the context of business planning, to monitor the impact of the allocation of annual tranche funding in multi-year agreements on the new indicative allocation of US $340.6 million in the budget for the 2009-2011 triennium to enable as many HCFC phase-out plans for as many countries as possible to be accommodated during the triennium.