Decision 69/4

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. With appreciation, the status reports and reports on projects with implementation delays submitted to the Secretariat by the implementing agencies and the Governments of the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan and Spain addressed in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/5;
   2. That 81 country programme implementation reports for the year 2011 had been submitted through the web-based system, which had been initiated on 25 April 2007;
   3. That the Secretariat and the implementing agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessments and report, and would notify governments and implementing agencies as required;
   4. The 2007 to 2009 consumption verification report on the terminal phase-out management plan (TPMP) in Zambia, demonstrating that consumption remained below the maximum allowable consumption specified for 2007 to 2009, as approved in the TPMP agreement;
   5. With appreciation, the report on actions taken for projects in Haiti to improve training components and fund transfer and to provide sufficient technical advice for technology decision-making;
   6. The 2011 and 2012 consumption verification report and the 2011 and 2012 annual implementation report on the national CFC phase-out plan (NPP) in Brazil;
   7. With appreciation, the interim report on the demonstration project to validate the use of super-critical carbon dioxide (CO2) in the manufacture of sprayed polyurethane rigid foam in Colombia, as submitted by the Government of Japan;
   8. The report submitted by UNIDO on the CTC phase-out plan in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in response to decision 68/34(b), contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/5/Add.1.
2. To request:
   1. Additional status reports to the 70^th meeting on the projects listed in Annexes II and III to the present report;
   2. The submission of additional specific status reports as specified for the 22 projects with issues listed in Annex IV to the present report;
   3. The Government of Israel to provide its implementation delay report to the 70^th meeting of the Executive Committee;
   4. The implementing agencies to consider the need for additional methyl bromide (MB) projects in the following countries that had partial MB phase-out projects or were exempted from complying with the MB controls pursuant to decision XV/12 of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Parties: Algeria, Argentina, China, Congo (the), Democratic Republic of the Congo (the), Nigeria, Sudan, Swaziland, Tunisia and Turkey;
   5. UNIDO to submit a progress report to the 70^th meeting on the current status of implementation of the MB projects in Argentina, Egypt, Kenya and Morocco, including a detailed explanation as to why the consumption levels reported under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol in 2011 were above those allowed under their respective Agreements with the Executive Committee, together with the proposed action plans to meet the targets as required by those agreements;
   6. The Governments of Kenya, Mozambique, Panama, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, for the second consecutive meeting, and the Government of Guinea-Bissau, to report to the Secretariat, as a matter of urgency, on whether their licensing systems were functioning “satisfactorily”, “very well” or “not so well”;
   7. UNEP to provide an update on the submission of the financial and activity report and on the signing of the new institutional strengthening (IS) agreement for Haiti that would enable the release of the balance of the funds;
   8. UNDP to complete the remaining activities outlined in the report on implementation of the NPP in Brazil; to submit a project completion report once the NPP had been completed during 2013, in accordance with the format indicated at the 65^th meeting and as proposed by UNDP; and to return any balance to the Multilateral Fund after completion of the remaining activities;
   9. The Government of Japan to submit to the 70^th meeting the final report on the demonstration project to validate the use of super-critical CO2 in the manufacture of sprayed polyurethane rigid foam in Colombia, taking into consideration the additional information requested in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/5;
3. With regard to the UNEP resource mobilization project:
   1. To note the interim report on resource mobilization submitted by UNEP contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/5;
   2. To urge UNEP:
      1. To provide a draft of the study on financing options for low‑volume‑consuming countries in the form of an information paper for the Executive Committee at the 70^th meeting;
      2. To submit the final study mentioned in sub-paragraph a. above to the 71^st meeting, taking into account guidance provided by the Executive Committee at the 70^th meeting;
      3. To complete the regional workshops on co-financing by December 2013 with a view to providing a report on their conclusions to the first meeting in 2014;
4. With regard to the UNDP resource mobilization project:
   1. To note the report on resource mobilization for climate co-benefits submitted by UNDP contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/5;
   2. To request UNDP to provide by the 71^st meeting:
      1. Copies of the proposals or a description of the projects initiated with funds provided under this project;
      2. The final report providing more detailed information on the processes and approaches used to mobilize additional resources, as well as lessons learned related to this exercise, ensuring that the elements described in decisions 63/20(a)(ii) and 68/4(c)(ii) were included, where this information was available;
   3. To request UNDP to provide a report to the Executive Committee on the results of the projects funded from the resource mobilization exercise once they had been implemented;
5. With regard to the UNIDO resource mobilization project, to note the final report on resource mobilization for climate co-benefits submitted by UNIDO contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/5; and
6. With regard to the World Bank resource mobilization project, to urge the World Bank to submit a final report on the study for climate co-benefits by the 70^th meeting.