Decision 70/10

70th Meeting of the Executive Committee
July 2013
Albania | Algeria | Antigua and Barbuda | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Brunei Darussalam | Chile | Cook Islands | Dominica | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | El Salvador | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Grenada | Guatemala | Guyana | India | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Iraq | Kuwait | Mauritania | Morocco | Mozambique | Myanmar | Namibia | Nicaragua | Oman | Panama | Peru | Philippines | Qatar | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saudi Arabia | Suriname | Uganda | Yemen | Global | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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The Executive Committee decided:

  1. To note:
    1. UNEP’s progress report contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/70/13;
    2. That there had been significant balances remaining for the CFC activities as at 31 December 2012;
    3. That UNEP had four projects classified with implementation delays, and that a report on those projects should be submitted to the 71st meeting;
  2. To urge UNEP to publish the study on challenges associated with halon banking in developing countries (GLO/HAL/52/TAS/281) by the 71st meeting in order to avoid consideration of possible return of project funds;
  3. To request the submission of additional status reports to the 71st meeting to monitor:
    1. Multi-year agreements (MYAs), excluding HCFC phase-out management plans (HPMPs), with issues related to:
      1. Progress in project implementation for the methyl bromide (MB) phase-out plan in Guatemala approved over one year previously and for which no disbursement had been recorded;
      2. Progress in project implementation for the three CFC/ODS phase-out plans in Ecuador, Kuwait, and the Philippines approved over one year previously with disbursement reported but lower than 10 per cent;
      3. Signature of the Agreements for the CFC/ODS phase-out plans for Bahrain, Ecuador and Eritrea;
    2. MYAs for HPMPs with issues related to:
      1. Progress in project implementation for the HPMPs for Dominica, Gabon, Guyana, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Suriname, as well as Bangladesh, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar, approved over one year previously and for which no disbursement had been recorded, and the signature of the relevant Agreements;
      2. Progress in project implementation for the MYAs for the HPMPs approved for El Salvador, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Panama, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, approved over one year previously with disbursement reported but lower than 10 per cent, and the signature of the relevant Agreements;
      3. Signature of the Agreements on HPMPs for Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and Uganda;
    3. Institutional strengthening (IS) projects with issues related to:
      1. The signature of the renewal or extension of projects in Algeria (ALG/SEV/57/INS/69), Brunei Darussalam (BRU/SEV/67/INS/14), the Cook Islands (CKI/SEV/67/INS/09), Grenada (GRN/SEV/67/INS/19), Mauritania (MAU/SEV/49/INS/17 and MAU/SEV/57/INS/23), Morocco (MOR/SEV/59/INS/63), and Saudi Arabia (SAU/SEV/67/INS/15);
      2. Rates of disbursement of approved funds for the renewal or extension of projects in Albania (ALB/SEV/66/INS/24), Dominica (DMI/SEV/62/INS/20), Ecuador (ECU/SEV/59/INS/43), Mauritania (MAU/SEV/57/INS/23), Morocco (MOR/SEV/59/INS/63), Myanmar (MYA/SEV/64/INS/13) and Namibia (NAM/SEV/66/INS/18);
    4. The closure of the refrigerant management plan (RMP) in Yemen (YEM/REF/37/TAS/19);
    5. HPMP project preparation in Mauritania (MAU/PHA/55/PRP/20) if the HPMP was not submitted to the 71st meeting;
  4. To request UNEP:
    1. To return the balances for the terminal phase-out management plan (TPMP) verification project in Kuwait (KUW/PHA/57/TAS/15) by 31 December 2013;
    2. To continue providing reports on the utilization of Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) staff for Multilateral Fund Montreal Protocol activities according to the following five categories in the context of annual progress and financial reports:
      1. Projects and services approved by the Executive Committee;
      2. Pursuing synergies or implementing joint activities with other non‑Multilateral Fund partnerships and initiatives;
      3. Mobilizing resources for ozone protection activities from entities outside of Multilateral Fund;
      4. UNEP-wide processes and activities; and
      5. Administrative activities.
    3. To provide a status report to the 71st meeting on the extent to which UNEP had implemented measures to ensure that all professional staff time paid with CAP funds was used for Multilateral Fund Montreal Protocol activities, in line with decision 50/26(a)(iii); and
    4. To ensure that regional network coordinators were directly accountable to the Network and Policy Manager in the OzonAction branch, based on the CAP organigram presented in the 2010 CAP budget (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/17), and according to the CAP structure indicated in the original description of the CAP programme provided in UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/4.