Decision 80/34

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the consolidated business plan of the Multilateral Fund for 2018–2020 contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/80/16;
2. To adjust the business plan as proposed by the Secretariat in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/80/16;
3. To further adjust the business plan as proposed at the 80^th meeting during the discussions and/or during the presentation of the business plans by bilateral and implementing agencies:
   1. By adding to the 2018 business plan HCFC phase-out management plans (HPMPs) and institutional strengthening activities from the 2017 business plan that had been deferred at the 80^th meeting;
   2. By taking into account the values approved in principle for new HPMPs at the 80^th meeting;
   3. By removing:
      1. Activities related to stage III of HPMPs;
      2. Project activities related to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;
   4. By adjusting the agency support cost for HFC enabling activities to seven per cent of the project costs;
   5. By prorating, pursuant to any decision taken by the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Parties on the level of replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for the 2018‑2020 triennium, new HCFC and HFC activities in order to reach the total budget for the 2018–2020 business plan;
4. To request bilateral and implementing agencies to include in their business plans the activities in stage II of the HPMPs for Mauritania and Syrian Arab Republic that had not been included;
5. To endorse the consolidated business plan of the Multilateral Fund for 2018–2020, as adjusted according to sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) above, while noting that endorsement denoted neither approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding or tonnage levels; and
6. To request the Secretariat to submit to the 81^st meeting a document on the implications for Multilateral Fund institutions in terms of expected workload in the coming years, including in relation to the Kigali Amendment for the phase-down of HFCs.