Decision 59/3

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The report on the status of the 2009 business plans as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/5 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/5/Add.1, the fact that US $17.85 million in activities that were required for compliance had not been submitted to the 59^th Meeting and that the level of annual tranches approved at the 59^th Meeting amounted to US $2,490,376 and, as a result, the total level of commitments for the period 2010-2014 would amount to US $109.9 million;
   2. The information on annual tranches of multi-year agreements (MYAs) submitted to the Secretariat by Canada, France, UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank, as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/5 and Add.1 and provided by the Secretariat on behalf of UNEP at the Meeting;
   3. That 44 of the 70 annual tranches of MYAs due for submission had been submitted on time to the 59^th Meeting;
   4. That letters should be sent with regard to the annual tranches, indicated in Table 1 of Annex II to the present report, that had been due for submission to the previous two Meetings, with the reasons for the delays, and encouraging bilateral and implementing agencies and the relevant Article 5 governments to expedite implementation of the approved tranches so that they could be submitted to the 60^th Meeting;
   5. That letters should be sent with regard to the annual tranches, indicated in Table 2 of Annex II to the present report, that had been due for submission to the 59^th Meeting, with the reasons for the delays, and encouraging bilateral and implementing agencies and the relevant Article 5 governments to submit those annual tranches to the 60^th Meeting;
2. To encourage the Governments of Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Tunisia to expedite completion of the existing tranches and the Government of Kyrgyzstan to complete the verification report necessary so as to enable the next tranches of the agreements to be submitted as soon as possible; and
3. To request the Chair of the Executive Committee to write to the Ministry of the Environment of Antigua and Barbuda requesting expedited implementation of the CFC phase-out plan in the light of the complete phase-out of CFCs by 1 January 2010.