Decision 87/21

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The request by the Government of Ecuador to transfer to UNIDO phase VII of the institutional strengthening project and all the phase-out activities included in the fifth tranche of stage I and in stage II of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) that had originally been planned for implementation by UNEP;
   2. That the Fund Secretariat had updated the Agreement between the Government of Ecuador and the Executive Committee for stage I of the HPMP, contained in Annex VII to the present report, specifically: Appendix 2‑A, on the basis of the transfer to UNIDO of the component of the fifth tranche originally planned to be implemented by UNEP, and paragraph 16, to indicate that the revised updated Agreement superseded that reached at the 81^st meeting;
   3. That the Fund Secretariat had updated the Agreement* between the Government of Ecuador and the Executive Committee for stage II of the HPMP, as contained in Annex VIII to the present report, specifically: the removal of all references to the cooperating agency and Appendix 6-B; the reallocation of all funding from UNEP to UNIDO in Appendix 2-A, and the addition of a new paragraph 17 to indicate that UNEP had stopped being the cooperating agency as of the 87^th meeting and that the updated Agreement superseded that reached at the 86^th meeting;
2. With regard to phase VII of the institutional strengthening project (ECU/SEV/83/INS/71):
   1. To request UNEP to return to the Multilateral Fund at the 87^th meeting the approved funding of US $226,305;
   2. To approve the transfer to UNIDO of the funding of US $226,305, plus agency support costs of US $15,841;
3. With regard to the fifth tranche of stage I of the HPMP (ECU/SEV/85/TAS/73):
   1. To request UNEP to return to the Multilateral Fund at the 87^th meeting the approved funding of US $10,000, plus agency support costs of US $1,300;
   2. To approve the transfer to UNIDO of the funding of US $10,000, plus agency support costs of US $700;
4. With regard to the first tranche of stage II of the HPMP (ECU/SEV/86/TAS/74):
   1. To request UNEP to return to the Multilateral Fund at the 87^th meeting the approved funding of US $24,000, plus agency support costs of US $3,120;
   2. To approve the transfer to UNIDO of the funding of US $24,000, plus agency support costs of US $1,680; and
5. Also to approve the transfer from UNEP to UNIDO of the funding, approved in principle, of US $71,000, plus agency support costs of US $4,970, associated with the second, third and fourth tranches of stage II of the HPMP.

*This Agreement was revised as per Decision 93/36.