The Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat, in consultation with bilateral agencies, to compile historical data of the rates of programme support costs of the bilateral cooperation projects and the methodology used for the calculation of such rates with a view to examining the applicability of the current administrative cost regime established by Decision 38/68 to bilateral agencies, and to report thereon to the 42nd Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/87, Decision 41/94, para. 150(c)).
The Forty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to take note of the report on programme support costs of bilateral cooperation projects (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/50);
(b) to note with appreciation the inputs from Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Japan;
(c) to defer further consideration of the programme support costs of bilateral cooperation projects until its 43rd Meeting;
(d) to invite the bilateral agencies to make further submissions giving their views on the matter in order to facilitate discussion at the 43rd Meeting; and
(e) to include in the provisional agenda of the 43rd Meeting an item entitled “Rights and obligations of bilateral agencies under the Montreal Protocol and its Multilateral Fund”.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54, Decision 42/45, para. 145).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/50).
The Forty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat, in cooperation with interested Parties, to prepare a paper, for consideration at the 45th Meeting, on a procedure for using support costs, consistent with Decision 26/41, in a more flexible manner to address the issues raised in paragraph 146 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54 while allowing bilateral agencies to decide which modalities would apply to them.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/61, Decision 43/40, para. 152).