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The Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties decided:
1. to request the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel to prepare a report for submission to the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties, and to present it through the Open-ended Working Group at its twenty-fifth meeting, to enable the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties to take a decision on the appropriate level of the 2006–2008 replenishment of the Multilateral Fund. In preparing its report, the Panel should take into account, among other things:
(a) all control measures, and relevant decisions, agreed by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and the Executive Committee including decisions agreed by the Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties and the Executive Committee at its forty-fifth meeting, in so far as the decisions will necessitate expenditure by the Multilateral Fund during the period 2006–2008; in addition, the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel report should include a scenario which indicates costs associated with implementation by Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the adjustment relating to methyl bromide proposed by the European Community;
(b) the need to allocate resources to enable all Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 to maintain compliance with Articles 2A–2I of the Montreal Protocol;
(c) agreed rules and guidelines for determining eligibility for funding of investment projects (including those in the production sector), non-investment projects and sectoral or national phase-out plans;
(d) approved country programmes;
(e) financial commitments in 2006–2008 relating to national or sectoral phase-out plans agreed by the Executive Committee;
(f) the provision of funds for accelerating phase-out and maintaining momentum, taking into account the time lag in project implementation;
(g) experience to date, including limitations and successes of the phase-out of ozone‑depleting substances achieved with the resources already allocated, as well as the performance of the Multilateral Fund and its Implementing Agencies;
(h) the current trends in the cost of ozone-depleting substances and the resulting incremental costs of investment projects during the period under review;
(i) administrative costs of the Implementing Agencies and the cost of financing the secretariat services of the Multilateral Fund, including the holding of meetings;
2. that, in undertaking this task, the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel should give due consideration to the evaluation and review of the financial mechanism of the Montreal Protocol to be undertaken by the Parties in 2004, pursuant to decision XIII/3;
3. that, in undertaking this task, the Panel should consult widely with all relevant persons and institutions and other relevant sources of information deemed useful;
4. that the Panel shall strive to complete its work in time to enable its report to be distributed to all Parties two months before the twenty-fifth Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.16/17, Decision XVI/35).
The Forty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that the Chair and the Vice-Chair, as well as the Chief Officer, should cooperate fully with the Technical and Economic Assessment Panel’s study on the 2006 2008 replenishment of the Multilateral Fund.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/44/73, Decision 44/62, para. 259).
The Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties decided:
1. to adopt a budget for the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol for 2006–2008 of $470,000,000 on the understanding that $59,600,000 of that budget will be provided from anticipated contributions due to the Multilateral Fund and other sources for the 2003–2005 triennium, and that $10,000,000 will be provided from interest accruing to the Fund during the 2006–2008 triennium. The Parties note that outstanding contributions from some Parties with economies in transition in the period 2003–2005 stand at $7,511,984;
2. to adopt the scale of contributions for the Multilateral Fund based on a replenishment of $133,466,667 for 2006, $133,466,667 for 2007, and $133,466,666 for 2008 as it appears in annex III to the report of the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer;
3. that the Executive Committee should take action to ensure, as far as possible, that the whole of the budget for 2006–2008 is committed by the end of 2008, and that Parties not operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 should make timely payments in accordance with paragraph 7 of decision XI/6.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.17/11, Decision XVII/40).
The Forty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the report on financial planning for the 2006-2008 triennium contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/5;
(b) to adopt a resource allocation of US $164.47 million in 2006, US $165.57 million in 2007, and US $139.96 million in 2008;
(c) to urge contributing Parties to make payments for the year 2006 by 1 June 2006 in accordance with paragraph 7 of decision XI/6 of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties, and to enable the full commitment of the US $470 million budget during the 2006-2008 triennium, as foreseen in decision XVII/40 of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties (paragraph 3);
(d) to urge contributing Parties to pay the arrears amounting to US $38.8 million remaining from the 2003-2005 triennium during 2006, as the contributing Parties had already paid US $21 million of the US $59.6 million in arrears due as part of the 2006-2008 replenishment;
(e) to urge contributing Parties using promissory notes to enable the Treasurer to accelerate the encashment of promissory notes in accordance with decision 25/2;
(f) to urge countries with economies in transition that had not paid previously to make their contributions to the Multilateral Fund for the 2006 2008 triennium to facilitate the full implementation of the three-year phase-out plan in order to enable Article 5 countries to comply with the control measures of the Montreal Protocol, and also to avoid shortfalls arising from non payment or delayed payment of pledged contributions during the compliance period for Article 5 countries;
(g) to agree that the amount of US $142 million in resources available for new commitments during the 2006 2008 triennium should be allocated as a first priority for the compliance needs of Article 5 countries; and
(h) to request that bilateral agencies specify the costs of planned activities in their annual business plans.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/45, Decision 48/3, para. 35).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/5).
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