Whereas the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer ("Protocol") to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer ("Parties") will establish an Interim Multilateral Fund and subsequently a Multilateral Fund as part of a financial mechanism for the purposes of providing financial and technical co-operation, including the transfer of technology, to eligible developing countries to enable them to comply with the control measures of the Protocol;
Whereas the Parties have invited the World Bank, UNEP and UNDP (singularly "Agency", collectively "Agencies") to co-operate and assist the Parties within their respective areas of expertise and to make appropriate arrangements with the Executive Committee, acting on behalf of the Parties, and among themselves for these purposes;
Whereas the Agencies will each make specific arrangements for co-operation with the Executive Committee; and
Whereas the Agencies find it desirable to establish additional procedures for co-operation with one another;
NOW THEREFORE the Agencies agree as follows:
1. Role of the Agencies
The Agencies will accept the invitation of the Parties to co-operate and assist them within the respective areas of expertise of the Agencies as follows:
a) the United Nations Environment Programme shall be invited by the Executive Committee to co-operate and assist in political promotion of the objectives of the Protocol, as well as in research, data gathering and the clearing-house functions which are identified as follows:
i) assist Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5, through country specific studies and other technical co-operation, to identify their needs for co-operation;
ii) facilitate technical co-operation to meet these identified needs;
iii) distribute, as provided for in Article 9, information and relevant materials, and hold workshops, training sessions, and other related activities, for the benefit of Parties that are developing countries; and
iv) facilitate and monitor other multilateral, regional and bilateral co-operation available to Parties that are developing countries.
b) the United Nations Development Programme shall be invited by the Executive Committee to co-operate and assist in feasibility and pre-investment studies and in other technical assistance measures;
c) the World Bank shall be invited by the Executive Committee to co-operate and assist in administering and managing the programme to finance the agreed incremental costs.
2. Close Co-operations
Each Agency will fulfill its role as described in Paragraph 1 in close co-operation with each other Agency. In particular, each Agency will consult each other Agency before making proposals to the Parties or the Executive Committee on matters of interest to the other Agency, and will pay due regard to the views of the other Agency.
3. Programmes of Activities and Budgets
Each Agency will prepare, after consultation with each other Agency, a planned programme of activities with a budget for fulfillment of its role as set out in Paragraph 1. In order to achieve complementarity, coherence and cost effectiveness of theses activities, these plans will be reviewed by the heads of the Agencies, or their representatives, in their annual meeting pursuant to paragraph 6. After the annual meeting, each Agency will submit its proposal to the Executive Committee.
4. Information
Each Agency will keep other Agency continuously and adequately informed in a timely manner to its activities covered by these arrangements as it affects the other Agency.
5 Representation of Agencies
Each Agency will designate a senior staff member and an alternate for carrying out these arrangements.
6. Meeting of Heads of Agencies
The heads of Agencies, or their representatives, will meet every year within 90 days before the annual meeting of the Parties in order to review the operation of these arrangements and further coordinate the work of the Agencies as necessary.
7. Amendments
These arrangements may be amended by the Agencies at any time.
8. Termination
These arrangements may be terminated by the Agencies at any time, and will be terminated with respect to any Agency upon notice by that Agency to each other Agency.
9. Effective date
These arrangements will enter into effect on the date of the latest signature below.
Dated International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
By
Dated United Nations Environment Programme
By
Dated United Nations Development Programme
By
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/2/5/Rev.1, para. 18).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/2/5/Rev.1 Annex I).