MULTILATERAL FUND FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF
THE
POLICIES, PROCEDURES, GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA
(As
at July 2004)
This Report contains the policies, procedures, guidelines and criteria of the Financial Mechanism under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer as established by the Meetings of the Parties under the Montreal Protocol and elaborated by the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund in accordance with its terms of reference.
The policies, procedures, guidelines and/or criteria in each section are grouped by subject area (indicated in bold characters). Description provided for each entry is quoted from the Final Report in which the entry was adopted. The reference document or documents related to each entry are presented in small italic characters. The date of either the Meeting of the Parties, or the Meeting of the Executive Committee at which the policy, procedure, guideline or criteria was considered and adopted, is indicated along with the reference document. A list of supporting documents, if any, is also provided for entries mainly related to procedures and guidelines.
Appended to the Report is the list of the documents (reference number, title and date) used in the preparation of this Report and dates and venues of the Meetings of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund.
The Report is divided into eleven chapters:
II. Executive Committee
V. Implementing Agencies
VII. Controlled Substances
VIII. Country Programmes
IX. Project Proposals
X. Institutional Strengthening
XI. Monitoring and Evaluation
XII. Sectoral phase-out agreements
From the Nineteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee onwards (May 1996), this compendium has included in it every decision of the Executive Committee and the Meetings of the Parties which establishes rules, policies or procedures, or could have any impact on the future operation of the Fund. That is, all decisions are listed other than those relating to approval of funding for specific projects or activities.
Thus the compendium is both a reference document on the correct rules and policies of the Multilateral Fund and a complete record of related decisions of the Executive Committee. The compendium is updated, in full, three times a year after each meeting of the Executive Committee.
The Parties to the Montreal Protocol established at their Second Meeting an Interim Financial Mechanism for the period 1991-1993 or until such time as the permanent Multilateral Fund Mechanism is established for the purposes of providing financial and technical co-operation, including the transfer of technologies, to Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the Montreal Protocol to enable their compliance with the control measures set out in Articles 2A to 2E of the Protocol.
The Mechanism, contributions to which shall be additional to other financial transfers to Parties operating under that paragraph, shall meet all agreed incremental costs of such Parties, in order to enable their compliance with the control measures of the Protocol.
The Mechanism shall include a Multilateral Fund and may also include other means of multilateral, regional and bilateral Secretary-General of the United Nations to establishing the Interim Multilateral Ozone Fund in accordance with the financial rules and regulations of the United Nations and to its administration by the Executive Director of UNEP. The account established with UNEP would receive contributions to the Interim Multilateral Ozone Fund and would make transfers from it according to directions provided by the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/1/2, para. 13).
The Executive Committee requested the Secretariat of the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol to continue providing secretarial services to the Multilateral Fund. All expenses related to these services will at a later stage be charged to the Multilateral Fund.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/1/2, para. 25).
The Interim Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol was established on 1 January 1991 and operated until December 1992.