Decision 69/5

Following the report of the contact group, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To endorse the consolidated 2013-2015 business plan of the Multilateral Fund contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/6 and Corr.1 as further adjusted by the Secretariat and the Executive Committee, while noting that endorsement denoted neither approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding or tonnage levels;
2. To adjust the value in the business plans for the production sector to maintain overall activities within the budget for the triennium;
3. To remove the following projects:
   1. The ODS alternative mapping studies from UNDP’s business plan;
   2. The global project on bridging technology innovation gaps from UNEP’s business plan;
   3. The HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from the business plans of UNIDO and UNEP;
   4. Funding for the methyl bromide technical assistance project in Ethiopia from UNIDO’s business plan;
4. To add to UNEP’s business plan stage II of the HPMP project preparation funds for Kiribati in the amount of US $22,600 in the year 2018;
5. To postpone the inclusion of the HPMPs for Libya and Tunisia in UNIDO’s business plan to 2014;
6. To reinstate the investment activities for stage II of the HPMP for Mexico in UNIDO’s business plans for 2014 taking into account decision 64/45(e);
7. To request a bilateral or implementing agency to include funding for stage I of the HPMP for Botswana in its business plan;
8. To allow UNEP to include the logical framework analysis tables in the compliance assistance programme (CAP) budget document rather than in its business plan, as had been required by decision 48/7(d);
9. To allow the submission of ODS destruction projects where project preparation had already been approved in accordance with the approved guidelines no later than the 72^nd meeting of the Executive Committee;
10. To move funding for the institutional strengthening project for Qatar to 2014 in UNIDO’s business plan;
11. To request the Secretariat and the implementing agencies to address the issue raised by the World Bank concerning performance indicators to be submitted to the 70^th meeting; and
12. To request the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and the implementing agencies to agree a schedule for the submission of project completion reports.