The Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the report of the Fund Secretariat on the Technical Workshop on Concessional Lending (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/67 and Corr.1) as well as the report of UNEP on the proceedings of the workshop (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/Inf.2);
(b) to express gratitude to the Government of Japan for the convening of the technical workshop with the assistance of UNEP;
(c) to note that the technical workshop served for useful exchange of views between Article 5 countries and non-Article 5 countries on concessional lending;
(d) to further note that the respective reports contained useful information on the modalities of concessional lending and their practical applications;
(e) to acknowledge the significant progress achieved in discussing the issue of concessional lending at the technical workshop and at the Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee;
(f) to include an item on concessional lending on the agenda of the 39th Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/75, para. 144).
(Supporting documents: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/67, 38/67/Corr.1 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/Inf.2).
The Thirty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to defer consideration of the issue to the Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee;
(b) to request the Secretariat to prepare historical documentation on concessional lending for distribution to members of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/43, Decision 39/57, para. 112).
The Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note that, having reviewed the experiences of the Multilateral Fund and the progress made in the implementation of the projects on highly concessional terms approved to date for Article 5 countries, the Implementing Agencies and the Article 5 countries concerned had accumulated sufficient useful competence and expertise to further identify and implement projects with innovative financing; and
(b) to request the Secretariat, the Implementing Agencies and bilateral agencies to continue to explore opportunities and possibilities for carrying out more pilot and demonstration projects in countries that wished to do so in order to illustrate how concessional lending or other innovative financial mechanisms could be used in accordance with Article 10 of the Montreal Protocol and thereby facilitate and/or advance national compliance with the Protocol, and to report from time to time to the Executive Committee and to the Meeting of the Parties.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/87, Decision 41/96, para. 155).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/83).