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The Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee also decided to request the Treasurer:
(i) to include an explanatory section on “Methodology and Assumptions” with future reports;
(ii) to carry out a reconciliation every year;
(iii) to include in his report to each meeting of the Executive Committee the value of the promissory notes as at the date of that meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/1, para. 31 (b)).
The Fortieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(b) to note:
(i) that the explanation of the methodology and assumptions being used by the Treasurer could be made available through the Internet;
(ii) the payments by Parties of their contributions in accordance with the financial procedures and regulations in force in their respective countries;
(iii) with concern the low level of rates of payment of contributions; and
(iv) the importance of reconciled financial accounts, which would facilitate the financial decisions of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/40/50, Decision 40/2, pars.25 (b)).
The Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(b) to note with appreciation the note by the Treasurer on the methodology and assumptions used, and the increased transparency of data submission;
(i) to request the Treasurer to amend the last two rows of the table showing the 1991-2003 summary status of contributions and other income to read “outstanding contributions for certain countries with economies in transition”, and to add a footnote to the new title specifying the countries with economies in transition concerned.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/87, Decision 41/2, para. 30 (a, b, i)).
The Forty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(b) also to note the new information provided by the Treasurer on the gains and losses resulting from the fixed exchange rate mechanism;
(c) to request the Treasurer to break down the information on gains and losses resulting from the fixed exchange rate mechanism by country and to include it in a separate column of the relevant table in future reports.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54, Decision 42/2 (a, b, c), para. 28 (b-c)).
The Forty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to take note of the new information provided by the Treasurer on the gains and losses resulting from the fixed-exchange-rate mechanism.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/61, Decision 43/1 ( b), para. 25).
The Forty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to take note, with appreciation, of the report of the Treasurer, including tables showing the updated status of the Fund and the ledger on the issue, receipt and encashment of promissory notes as at 18 November 2005, which are reproduced in Annex I to the present report.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/47/61, Decision 47/1, para. 21).
The Forty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the report of the Treasurer as of 7 April 2006 on the status of contributions and disbursements;
(b) to urge Parties eligible to use the fixed-exchange-rate mechanism option to inform the Treasurer by the 49th Meeting of the Executive Committee of their intention to do so;
(c) to request the Treasurer to add to his report to the 49th Meeting of the Executive Committee the list of countries opting to use the fixed-exchange-rate mechanism facility in making their contributions to the Fund for the triennium 2006-2008; and
(d) also to request the Treasurer to contact Parties with pending contributions urging them to pay their contributions to the Multilateral Fund in full as early as possible in accordance with paragraph 7 of decision XI/6.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/45, Decision 48/1, para. 23).
The Forty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Treasurer to provide the 50th Meeting of the Executive Committee with information on when Parties that had been unable to make their contributions by 1 June would make their payments, in accordance with decision XI/6, paragraph 7, of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/49/43, Decision 49/2, para. 34 (a)).
The Fiftieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note:
(i) the report of the Treasurer on the status of contributions and disbursements contained in the Final Report;
(ii) the intersessional approval of US $2 million plus US $0.1 million in support costs for the World Bank towards Argentina’s CFC production closure project;
(iii) that US $67,735,710 of promissory notes had been encashed since the 49th Meeting of the Executive Committee;
(iv) With appreciation that US $51,234,834 related to accelerated encashment of notes by France and the United Kingdom;
(b) to urge the remaining countries holding promissory notes to take the necessary action to accelerate their encashment and to encash those promissory notes issued by 31 December 2005 before the 51st Meeting of the Executive Committee;
(c) to encourage Parties with outstanding contributions to pay them at their earliest convenience and in this regard to note with concern that several Parties had not responded to the Treasurer’s request to provide information on when they would make their outstanding payments in line with decision XI/6, paragraph 7, of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties; and
(d) to note the updated list of countries opting to use the fixed-exchange-rate mechanism facility in making their contributions to the Fund for the triennium 2006-2008 as at 6 November 2006.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/50/62,Decision 50/1 para. 31).
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