Decision 74/53

Additional funding to conduct inventories or surveys of ODS alternatives

After hearing the report of the contact group, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The request to the Executive Committee from the Meeting of the Parties as contained in decision XXVI/9 (paragraph 4);
   2. Document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/74/53 on Follow-up to decision XXVI/9 (paragraph 4) of the Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Parties on additional funding to conduct inventories or surveys of ODS alternatives;
2. That the objective of the surveys was to give effect to paragraph 4 of decision XXVI/9, which requested the Executive Committee to consider providing additional funding to conduct inventories or surveys of alternatives to ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in interested Article 5 parties upon their request;
3. That the scope of the surveys was to obtain information on ODS alternatives in Article 5 countries. Information would include data (where available) and estimates of ODS alternatives currently in use by sector and subsector, and forecasts of ODS alternatives most commonly used;
4. To limit the maximum funding provided for the preparation of surveys of ODS alternatives according to the table below, based on the countries’ HCFC consumption, with the exception of those Article 5 countries which had conducted similar surveys outside the Multilateral Fund, which would only be eligible for 50 per cent of the funding levels indicated:

5. To consider the requests for funding surveys of ODS alternatives submitted by bilateral and implementing agencies, as contained in their work programmes submitted for consideration at the 74^th meeting, on the condition that these were supported by letters of endorsement from the respective Article 5 countries;
6. To allow the submission of funding requests for national surveys of alternatives to ODS from countries that had not submitted a request to the 74^th meeting;
7. To request the Secretariat, in consultation intersessionally with bilateral and implementing agencies and interested Executive Committee members, to prepare a format for preparation of the surveys and presentation of the resulting data for the consideration of the Executive Committee at its 75^th meeting, on the understanding that interested countries could initiate the surveys before the format was agreed; and
8. To request the Secretariat to provide an overall analysis of the results of the surveys for consideration of the Executive Committee by its first meeting in 2017.