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The Fifty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the 2008-2010 business plans on bilateral cooperation. submitted by Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan as addressed in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/54/7, without prejudice to the Parties’ discussions on replenishment for the period 2009-2011 triennium, and to maintain:
(i) the combating of illegal trade (second year funding) in Canada’s business plan;
(ii) the ODS destruction activity in the business plan of Japan, in the light of decision 54/5(c);
(iii) the MDI activity in India in Italy’s business plan in the light of decision 54/5(d);
(b) to remove HCFC activities in Germany’s business plan in the light of decision 54/5(b)(iii);
(c) to note that Germany had indicated with respect to potential over-programming in its business plan that, if all the funding could be approved in the current year, it would team up with other agencies to share the activities, and that all the countries that could be affected by the over-programming had been made aware that Germany might not have sufficient funds to submit their activities for funding in 2008; and
(d) to allow Switzerland’s request for funding to be considered as its business plan to enable it to use up to 20 per cent of its pledges for the 2006-2008 triennium for bilateral cooperation.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/54/49, Decision 54/6 para. 55).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/54/7).
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