Decision 57/5

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. With appreciation, the status reports on projects with implementation delays submitted to the Secretariat by the Governments of Australia, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain and the four implementing agencies addressed in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/6;
   2. The completion of 13 of the 33 projects listed that had been considered as projects with implementation delays;
   3. That the Secretariat and the implementing agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessments of progress or some progress and report to and notify Governments and implementing agencies as required;
   4. With appreciation, the comments received from 53 countries on the risk indicators;
   5. With appreciation, that thus far 92 countries had indicated their confidence in complying with the control measures of the Montreal Protocol after having reviewed the risk assessment;
2. To encourage interested Article 5 Parties to conduct their own compliance risk assessment making full use of the methodology and indicators developed by the Secretariat;
3. To consider further the role of the Secretariat with respect to the assessment of the risks of non-compliance in the context of work programmes on monitoring and evaluation;
4. To request additional status reports on the projects listed in Annex II to the present report;
5. To note the completion of the Recovery and recycling of CFCs project (URT/REF/36/TAS/14), that had been considered for cancellation, and to request the Government of Germany to proceed with the submission of the project completion report:
6. To cancel the refrigeration project in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRA/FOA/28/INV/50) as the milestone set for the company at the 56^th Meeting had not been met.