Decision 71/18

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the consolidated 2014-2016 business plan of the Multilateral Fund contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/71/7;
2. To add to the 2014 business plans those multi-year agreement and institutional strengthening activities from the 2013 business plans that had not been submitted or not approved at the 71^st meeting;
3. To remove activities in the refrigeration servicing sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina from Italy’s business plan;
4. To request bilateral and implementing agencies:
   1. To submit stage I HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) activities for Botswana not included in the business plans;
   2. In future business plans:
      1. To provide a distribution of tonnage for HPMPs according to the cost‑effectiveness of the overall HPMP agreement;
      2. To indicate project funding requirements based on the estimated tonnage required to achieve the next scheduled reduction;
      3. To indicate those countries for which business plan entries represented a 100 per cent phase-out in accordance with decision 62/10; and
5. To endorse the consolidated 2014-2016 business plan of the Multilateral Fund, as 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.