The Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request the Secretariat to convene a meeting of Implementing Agencies and interested bilateral donors, with the participation of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee and some interested non-governmental organizations, for the purpose of developing a strategy and guidelines for investment projects in the methyl bromide sector;
(b) that, as guidelines for these already existed, demonstration projects should go ahead.
(c) to urge the Implementing Agencies to make every effort to present well-considered investment projects in the methyl bromide sector during 1998 and based on the developments under point (a) above.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, Decision 23/44, para. 72).
The Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to approve the strategy and guidelines for the methyl bromide sector as appeared in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47 Annex IV).
NOTE: These guidelines have been supersede by the revised guidelines in Annex IX.14.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47, Decision 24/12, para. 33).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/18).
The Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to set up a working group, composed of Algeria, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy and the United States of America, to revise the existing guidelines for projects in the methyl bromide sector;
(b) to request the Secretariat to prepare a document, incorporating information provided by experts in the field and by members of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee, as well as findings from any of the Implementing Agencies’ demonstration projects, for study by the working group and for submission to the Executive Committee at its Twenty-eighth Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48, Decision 27/86, para. 132).
The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to commend the working group and its facilitator on the progress made;
(b) to reconstitute the working group from members of the new Executive Committee to conclude the work on the guidelines for the methyl bromide sector;
(c) to include the subject of the revision of the guidelines for the methyl bromide sector in the agenda for the next meeting of the Executive Committee;
(d) to request the Secretariat, in conjunction with the relevant Implementing Agencies, to develop draft project templates for cost categories for specific priority applications; and
(e) to continue using the existing guidelines until the new guidelines had been completed.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/68, para 101).
The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to re-establish the Working Group on Revision of the Guidelines for Methyl Bromide Projects, composed of Australia, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Germany, India, Netherlands, Tunisia, Uganda (convener) and the United States of America.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/3, para 10).
The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee noting the efforts and recommendations of the working group, decided to adopt the revised guidelines for methyl bromide projects (Annex IX.14).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/80, para 100).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/40 and Corr.1)