Consolidated business plan of the Multilateral Fund for the years 2009-2011

The Fifty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to note:

      (i)   the consolidated 2009-2011 business plan of the Multilateral Fund as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/7;

      (ii)  with concern that the amounts in the business plans exceeded the budget for the triennium owing largely to the uncertainty in the costing of HCFC activities;

(b)  that requests for HCFC investment projects and sector plans should be consistent with the requirements of decision 54/39 and provide an indication of how those investment projects related to the HPMP and an indication of when the HPMP would be submitted;

(c)  that the value of annual tranches for HCFC multi-year agreement activities should be considered in HPMP proposals in the light of budgetary restrictions;

(d)  to urge bilateral and implementing agencies to continue their efforts to implement approved projects to ensure the expected phase-out of 8,836 ODP tonnes in 2009;

(e)  to request the Secretariat to prepare, for the 59th Meeting, a strategic analysis to assist the Executive Committee in providing guidance to the bilateral and implementing agencies on how to equitably allocate, in their 2010 and 2011 business plans, funds for all eligible Article 5 countries to enable them to comply with the HCFC 2013 freeze and the 2015 10 per cent reduction, within the limits of available resources. The strategic analysis should take into consideration any decisions on HCFC costs and funding eligibility taken by the Executive Committee prior to the 59th Meeting, and present options on how funding could be allocated, taking into account countries’ total HCFC consumption and the sectoral distribution of that consumption;

(f)  to remove from the implementing agencies’ business plans:

      (i)   all metered-dose inhaler strategies;

      (ii)  all HCFC production components;

      (iii) all HCFC foam demonstration projects except:

*An indicative cap on the value of this project was applied to the activity.

        (iv)  all HCFC refrigeration demonstration projects, noting that the project in Jordan had been reclassified as an investment project;

        (v)   all HCFC solvent demonstration projects;

        (vi)  all ODS disposal projects except:

(g)  to include in Annex III to the present report the list of ODS disposal projects removed from the business plans and explanations of those maintained in the business plans with respect to selection criteria; and

(h)  to request the Secretariat to prepare a document containing criteria and guidelines for the selection of ODS disposal projects for consideration of the Committee at its 58th Meeting, taking into account decision XX/7 of the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties, and the contact group discussions on ODS disposal project selection held at the 57th Meeting.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/69, Decision 57/6 para.61).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/7).

The Fifty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to allow additional HCFC projects that demonstrated alternative or new technology and that could provide the information required by decision 55/43 to be included in the 2010 business plans of the bilateral and implementing agencies.  This also covered demonstration projects to determine the effectiveness of low-global warming potential (GWP) alternatives to HCFCs in the air conditioning and refrigeration sector in high ambient temperature areas in Article 5 countries, as requested in decision XXI/9 of the Twenty-First Meeting of the Parties.:

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/59, Decision 59/9 para.60).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/11).