56. Pursuant to a request by the Chief Officer, the Executive Committee authorized the Secretariat to prepare documents on the following issues for discussion in the Executive Committee and transmission to the Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties:
(i) further definition of incremental costs;
(ii) guidelines for cost assessment of bilateral and regional activities;
(iii) whether support from the Fund could be given retroactively;
(iv) whether the Fund should finance activities relating to enterprises that were wholly or partly owned by transnational corporations;
(v) whether the Fund should finance activities relating to enterprises that were owned by countries not Parties to the Montreal Protocol;
(vi) concessional loans versus grants;
(vii) the magnitude of the Fund required for the next three-year period.