Subsequently, the Executive Committee decided:
- To note:
- The consolidated progress report of the Multilateral Fund as at 31 December 2018 contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/84/16;
- With appreciation, the efforts undertaken by bilateral and implementing agencies in reporting their 2018 activities;
- That the bilateral and implementing agencies would report, at the 85th meeting, on five projects with implementation delays and 58 ongoing projects or tranches of multi-year agreements recommended for additional status reports, as contained in Annexes V to VIII to the present report;
- That the Secretariat, in cooperation with the bilateral and implementing agencies, would revise the progress report database by incorporating a CO2‑equivalent metric tonne measurement for Annex F substances, calculated as the consumption or production in metric tonnes multiplied by the global‑warming potential of the substance as specified in Annex F to the Montreal Protocol, and to report those values in the progress reports submitted at the 88th meeting and in all future progress reports;
- To request the Secretariat to submit, at the 85th meeting, an additional report on the HFC-related investment projects and enabling activities funded using the additional contributions by a group of 17 non-Article 5 Parties, identifying the countries for which the projects had been approved and providing an overview of the objectives, status of implementation, key findings and lessons learned, the amounts of HFC phased out where applicable, the level of funds approved and disbursed and potential challenges in completing the projects and activities, on the understanding that that information would be provided on an individual basis for the HFC-related investment projects and on an aggregated basis for the HFC enabling activities; and
- To request the Secretariat and the bilateral and implementing agencies to include the information set out in sub-paragraph (b) above in all future consolidated progress reports and individual progress reports, respectively, until all the HFC-related investment projects and enabling activities had been completed.