The Executive Committee decided:
- To note:
- The document on country programme (CP) data and prospects for compliance contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/80/8;
- That 139 countries had submitted 2016 CP data, 120 of them using the web‑based system;
- With concern that five countries (Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Kuwait, Uganda and Yemen) had not submitted 2016 CP data as at 15 November 2017;
- To request:
- The Secretariat to send letters to the governments of countries with outstanding 2014, 2015 and 2016 CP data reports, urging them to submit the reports immediately; and
- Relevant implementing agencies to continue assisting the relevant government in clarifying discrepancies between 2015 CP data and Article 7 data (Morocco), and between 2016 CP data and Article 7 data (South Africa, the Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey) and to report back to the 81st meeting.