Decision 70/3

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The report on the status of the 2013-2015 business plans and tranche submission delays, as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/70/5;
   2. The information on tranche submission delays under multi-year agreements (MYAs) submitted to the Secretariat by Germany, UNDP, UNEP and UNIDO;
   3. That 42 out of 70 tranches of MYAs due for submission had been submitted on time to the 70^th meeting and that four of those tranches had been withdrawn after discussion with the Fund Secretariat;
2. To request:
   1. The bilateral and implementing agencies to address in their 2013-2015 business plans those activities not submitted in 2013 as planned, as contained in Annexes II and III to the present report;
   2. The Secretariat:
      1. To send letters to the Governments of the countries indicated below to urge the submission of the next tranche of the MYA to the 71^st meeting, noting, where applicable, that the 70^th meeting was the second meeting to which the tranche could have been submitted: the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, the Central African Republic, Chile, China, the Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Mali, Mexico, Montenegro, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Viet Nam and Zambia; and
      2. To send letters to the Governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Nigeria to urge the submission of the next tranches of the MYAs to the 71^st meeting, noting that the tranches had been withdrawn from consideration at the 70^th meeting after discussion with the Fund Secretariat owing to the countries’ inability to meet the 20 per cent disbursement threshold for funding of the previous tranche.