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Having considered the priorities for the 2006-2008 triennium for the US $61 million not directly required for compliance with control measures up to the year 2010, the removal or maintenance of any non-priority activities in the 2007-2009 business plans, the need for the development of further guidance on eligible incremental costs for HCFC activities, the report on HCFC surveys by UNDP, and Germany’s study on HCFC consumption and production in China, the Fifty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the 2007-2009 consolidated business plan of the Multilateral Fund as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/51/6 without prejudice to consideration of the individual business plans;
(b) to regard the following areas as priorities when allocating the US $61 million in unallocated funds to activities not required for compliance, according to the compliance-oriented, model rolling three-year phase out plan for 2007-2009:
(i) additional funding initiatives outside the budget, namely:
a. additional activities/studies currently outside the budget, on a case-by-case basis;
b. CFC solvents;
c. Activities in countries that were currently not Parties, on the understanding that funds would not be disbursed until the country had become a Party;
d. terminal phase-out management plan (TPMP) preparation and a TPMP for Armenia;
e. institutional strengthening, on a case-by-case basis;
f. methyl bromide (MB) consumption in Parties that had not ratified the Copenhagen Amendment, on the understanding that funds would not be disbursed until ratification had occurred, not even for project preparation;
g. acceleration of CFC production phase-out;
(c) also to consider the following areas as priorities, on a case-by-case basis:
(i) combating illegal trade;
(ii) halon not required by model rolling three-year phase-out plan;
(iii) accelerated MB phase-out;
(iv) MB non-investment projects;
(v) metered-dose inhaler activities, in accordance with decision 51/34;
(d) to remove HCFC activities and ODS disposal from the 2007-2009 business plans for the time being on the understanding that those issues would be considered at the first meeting of the Executive Committee in 2008; and
(e) to urge bilateral and implementing agencies to increase their efforts to implement approved projects to facilitate achieving the 2007 reduction in controlled substances, noting that 35,945 ODP tonnes were scheduled to be phased out in 2007 from approved projects.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/51/46, Decision 51/5 para. 58).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/51/6)
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