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The Sixtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) To note the consolidated 2010-2012 business plan of the Multilateral Fund as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/60/7 and the fact that it addressed activities for compliance with the 2015 control measures of the Montreal Protocol;
(b) To adopt a budget of US $193.9 million for 2010, while noting the budget of US $203 million for 2011, established by decision 57/4;
(c) To modify the multi-year agreement amounts in the agencies’ business plans to reflect the records of the Fund Secretariat;
(d) To integrate terminal phase-out management plan activities beyond 2010 and those planned for Somalia into HCFC phase-out management plans;
(e) To request the bilateral and implementing agencies to consider the need for methyl chloroform activities in Haiti and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;
(f) To amend the business plans of the bilateral and implementing agencies according to the model rolling three-year phase-out plan for institutional strengthening projects;
(g) To remove new project preparation requests for ODS disposal included in the business plans, except those required by decision 59/10 and requests for countries that had been considered at the 59th Meeting;
(h) To modify the allocation for the ODS disposal activity in China in the business plans of Japan to US $1,320,000 for 100 ODP tonnes and of UNIDO to US $1,320,000 for 100 ODP tonnes;
(i) To request the bilateral and implementing agencies at the 61st Meeting to suggest a level of funding for ODS activities in low-volume-consuming (LVC) counties in light of decision XXI/2 of the Twenty-first Meeting of the Parties;
(j) To establish a resource allocation for HCFC production in the business plans amounting to US $147,000,000 for the period 2010 to 2014, guided by the amount suggested by the UNEP’s Technology and Economic Assessment Panel in its Assessment of the Funding Requirements for the Replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for the Period 2009-2011;
(k) To maintain activities in the business plans for additional HCFC demonstration projects beyond those for which project preparation had already been approved;
(l) To maintain activities in the business plans for HCFC demonstration projects with no phase-out;
(m) To remove from the business plans activities for HCFC demonstration projects to be submitted after 2010;
(n) To modify the business plans for HPMP, HCFC demonstration and HCFC investment project preparation to correspond to the values approved for such activities in the light of decisions 55/13 and 56/16;
(o) To request:
(i) A status report on establishing or modifying licensing systems, legislation and regulations pursuant to funding provided through decision 54/39(e) to address the accelerated phase out of HCFCs, to be submitted to the 61st Meeting in the context of the agencies’ progress reports;
(ii) That the business plans to be submitted to the 61st Meeting address planning for the period 2010 to 2014 and the 63rd Meeting 2011 to 2014; and
(iii) Implementing agencies to indicate in their submissions to the 61st Meeting and in future business plans:
a. The level of HCFC phase-out, by chemical, for example HCFC-22 and HCFC-141b; and
b. The level of climate co-benefits that could be achieved through HCFC phase-out activities required to achieve compliance;
(p) To request the bilateral and implementing agencies to revise their 2010-2012 business plans to take into account the criteria for funding HCFC phase-out in the consumption sector adopted by the Executive Committee (see decision 60/44), and in particular:
(i) To ensure that the selection of projects in the business plans was consistent with the cut-off date applicable to HCFC-based capacity;
(ii) To include projects for second-stage conversions when they were necessary, and/or the most cost-effective projects in the manufacturing sector, to facilitate the compliance of Article 5 countries with HCFC control measures up to and including the 2020 reduction step;
(iii) To adjust the indicative costs of HCFC projects in the business plans to reflect the relevant parameters agreed with respect to incremental operating costs, phase-out costs in the refrigeration servicing sector, and cost-effectiveness thresholds; and
(iv) To ensure that for each Article 5 country included in the business plans, the year or years of HCFC consumption used to calculate the quantity of HCFC tonnage to be funded for phase-out to achieve compliance with the 2013 HCFC freeze and 2015 HCFC 10 per cent reduction corresponded to one of the two agreed options for the starting point for aggregate sustained reductions;
(q) To request the bilateral and implementing agencies to submit their revised business plans to the 61st Meeting of the Executive Committee taking into account the above, and
(r) To request the Secretariat to prepare a revised consolidated business plan for the 61st Meeting based on the revised business plans submitted.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/60/54, Decision 60/5 para.57).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/60/7).
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