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The Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties decided:
1. to request the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel to prepare a report for submission to the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties, and to present it through the Open-ended Working Group at its twenty-eighth meeting, to enable the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties to take a decision on the appropriate level of the 2009–2011 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 Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties and the Executive Committee at its fifty third and fifty-fourth meetings insofar as those decisions will necessitate expenditure by the Multilateral Fund during the period 2009–2011, including scenarios which indicate eligible incremental costs and cost-efficiencies associated with implementation by Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the adjustments and decisions relating to HCFCs, and, in addition, the Panel should provide indicative figures for the periods 2012–2014 and 2015–2017 in order to provide information to support a stable level of funding that would be updated prior to figures for those periods being finalized;
(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 and possible new agreed compliance measures relevant to the period 2009–2011 under the Montreal Protocol;
(c) rules and guidelines agreed by the Executive Committee, up to and including its fifty fourth meeting, 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 2009–2011 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 impact that the international market, ozone-depleting substance control measures and country phase out activities are likely to have on the supply of and demand for ozone-depleting substances, the corresponding effects on the price 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 Panel should consult widely with all relevant persons and institutions and other relevant sources of information deemed useful;
3. to request the Panel to provide additional information on the levels of funding required for replenishment in each of the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 and to study the financial and other implications of a possible longer replenishment period, in particular whether such a measure would provide for more stable levels of contributions;
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-eighth Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group;
5. to request the Panel to take into account the conclusions resulting from the study conducted by the Executive Committee pursuant to paragraph 2 of decision XVIII/9 in the event that proposals for control measures related to the subject of that study are submitted to the Ozone Secretariat.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.19/7, Decision XIX/10).
The Twentieth Meeting of the Parties decided”
1. to adopt a budget for the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol for 2009–2011 of $490,000,000 on the understanding that $73,900,000 of that budget will be provided from anticipated contributions due to the Multilateral Fund and other sources for the 2006–2008 triennium, and that $16,100,000 will be provided from interest accruing to the Fund during the 2009–2011 triennium. The Parties note that outstanding contributions from some Parties with economies in transition in the period 2006–2008 stand at $5,604,438;
2. to adopt the scale of contributions for the Multilateral Fund based on a replenishment of $133,333,334 for 2009, $133,333,333 for 2010, and $133,333,333 for 2011 as it appears in annex III to the report of the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Twentieth 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 2009–2011 is committed by the end of 2011, 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.20/9, Decision XX/10).
The Executive Committee at its Fifty-seventh Meeting decided:
(a) to note the report on financial planning for the 2009-2011 triennium as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/5;
(b) to request that bilateral agencies specify the costs of planned activities in their annual business plans and attempt to remain within the estimates specified when submitting the relevant projects during the 2009-2011 triennium;
(c) to urge contributing Parties to make payments no later than 1 June each year in accordance with paragraph 7 of decision XI/6 of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties so as to enable full commitment of the US $490 million budget during the 2009-2011 triennium, as provided in paragraph 3 of decision XX/10 of the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties;
(d) to urge those contributing Parties with arrears from the 2006-2008 triennium to pay them during 2009 as they accounted for US $43.2 million of the US $73.9 million carry-over from the 2006-2008 triennium;
(e) to request those contributing Parties that had not provided for accelerated encashment of promissory notes to consider allowing an accelerated encashment schedule or adjusting their encashment schedule for future promissory notes so that they corresponded to the year in which the contributions were due;
(f) to urge countries with economies in transition that had never paid to make their contributions to the Multilateral Fund for the 2009-2011 triennium;
(g) to adopt a resource allocation of US $106 million in 2009, US $181 million in 2010, and US $203 million in 2011;
(h) to consider the availability of cash flow for the 2011 budget at the first Meeting of the Executive Committee in 2011 in light of the collection of interest, the payment of contributions from countries that had not previously paid, and any losses due to non payment or the fixed-exchange-rate mechanism; and
(i) in the context of business planning, to monitor the impact of the allocation of annual tranche funding in multi-year agreements on the new indicative allocation of US $340.6 million in the budget for the 2009-2011 triennium to enable as many HCFC phase-out plans for as many countries as possible to be accommodated during the triennium.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/69, Decision 57/4, para. 40).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/5).
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