Decision 66/16

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To take note of the document“Systematizing and streamlining reporting on progress to the Executive Committee across the spectrum of reports”, as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/66/18;
2. To request:
   1. That, as of the 67^th meeting of the Executive Committee, the information currently required for the agenda item“Report on implementation of approved projects with specific reporting requirements” be reported, together with compliance issues, in an agenda item and document to be entitled“Status reports and compliance”, which would replace the document and agenda item currently entitled“Status of implementation of delayed projects and prospects of Article 5 countries in achieving compliance with the next control measures of the Montreal Protocol”;
   2. That the information on multi-year agreements (MYAs) in the remarks column of the Annual Progress and Financial Report (APF) should be included in the narrative of the tranche implementation plan (TIP), with any differences explained;
   3. That TIP reports were not required in the absence of a funding tranche request, except in those cases where there was an issue on the application of the penalty clause or changes to targets in approved TIPs;
   4. That agencies submit MYA project completion reports (PCRs) as noted at the 65^th meeting in decision 65/6 and any available verification reports, together with the table entitled“Overall implementation plan and annual implementation report” (Table 8) of the approved MYA PCR format, in lieu of TIPs and TIP reports, for: refrigerant management plans, terminal phase-out management plans, national phase-out plans for CFC, CTC and methyl bromide and, in the event that a verification report was completed before a PCR, to submit the verification in the context of a status report or APF;
   5. UNEP to present its detailed annual progress report on Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) activities to the third meeting of each year in the context of the annual CAP approval, and to identify any project implementation impediments for the CAP project in the APF;
3. To review the effectiveness of the present decision at its first meeting in 2015; and
4. That one of the two remarks columns in the APF would be used to report the latest non-financial data available related to projects.