Decision 77/8

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The consolidated progress report of the Multilateral Fund as at 31 December 2015 contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/77/11;
   2. With appreciation, the efforts undertaken by bilateral and implementing agencies in reporting 2015 activities;
   3. That the bilateral and implementing agencies would report to the 79^th meeting on 16 projects with implementation delays and 116 projects recommended for additional status reports, as contained in Annexes III and IV, respectively, to the present report;
2. Further to note:
   1. That one component of the CTC phase-out plan in India (IND/PRO/75/INV/447) would be completed in December 2016 and any remaining balances would be returned by December 2017;
   2. That project completion reports should be provided separately for the phase-out of methyl bromide in consumption and production sector plans in China;
3. To extend the approved completion dates for the following projects:
   1. The two technical assistance components of the CTC phase-out plan in India (IND/PHA/45/INV/389 and IND/PHA/75/INV/463), to November 2017;
   2. The methyl bromide national phase-out plan in China (CPR/FUM/72/INV/542), to December 2018 (or as soon as possible), with any remaining balances being returned;
   3. The national phase-out plan (NPP) in Iraq implemented by UNEP (IRQ/PHA/58/TAS/10 and IRQ/PHA/63/TAS/14) and UNIDO (IRQ/PHA/58/INV/09), to June 2017, owing to issues relating to implementation under the current political and institutional difficulties in the country;
4. To freeze the tranche funding for the NPP (YEM/PHA/55/INV/28, YEM/PHA/55/INV/31 and YEM/PHA/60/INV/36) and stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) (YEM/PHA/68/TAS/39 and YEM/PHA/68/TAS/40) for Yemen, on the condition that the funding could be reinstated and the agreements reactivated once conditions in the country had improved and once the Government and relevant implementing agencies had submitted a revised plan of action taking into account the reallocation of the funding tranches of the agreements;
5. To request bilateral and implementing agencies, starting from the 79^th meeting and continuing until projects had been completed:
   1. To submit reports for all pilot demonstration projects for ODS disposal as projects with specific reporting requirements;
   2. To submit reports for all ongoing chiller projects as projects with specific reporting requirements;
6. Further to request bilateral and implementing agencies to report project preparation activities as completed no later than six months after approval of the HPMP by the Executive Committee and to return fund balances from those activities no later than 18 months after approval of the HPMP;
7. To request implementing agencies to revise their progress report disbursement data for the following tranches of HPMPs, as appropriate, in order to be in line with decision 76/14(b): BAH/PHA/68/TAS/28 (UNEP); BRA/PHA/73/INV/306 and BRA/PHA/74/INV/307 (UNDP); CHI/PHA/71/INV/179 (UNDP); CHI/PHA/71/TAS/180 (UNEP); IDS/PHA/71/INV/202 (World Bank); and MEX/PHA/71/INV/168 (UNDP);
8. To urge bilateral and implementing agencies to take appropriate actions to complete and submit, by January 2017, as many reports as possible on surveys of ODS alternatives to enable the Secretariat to provide an analysis of the results of such surveys for consideration by the Executive Committee at its 78^th meeting, in line with decision 74/53(h);
9. That no more than two institutional strengthening projects should be ongoing at the same time;
10. That projects where 100 per cent of the funds had been reported to have been disbursed should be completed within one year of the moment when the full disbursement had been reported;
11. To reiterate that the latest planned project completion dates in annual progress reports should represent the agency’s best estimation of the expected completion date;
12. That any change in project completion dates should be accompanied by a clear rationale for the extension and, in cases where the Executive Committee had established a completion date, any request for an extension would have to be submitted for approval by the Executive Committee; and
13. That project completion reports should continue to be provided on each agreement and each project, without being combined into a single report.