The Twenty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee, having considered the 1997 work programme of UNEP together with the comments and recommendations of the Fund Secretariat thereon, as well as the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Project Review, decided:
(a) to approve a total amount of US $1.05 million for recurring information-exchange activities that are ongoing in nature (namely, the collection of sectoral data from world-wide sources; updated OAIC diskette version; dissemination of information materials; direct query-response service; maintenance of contact database of experts and mailing list of OzonAction programme publications; halon bank management clearing-house services; publication of the OzonAction newsletter and special supplements);
(b) to approve a total amount of US $0.335 million for the remaining, non-recurring information-exchange activities in the UNEP 1997 work programme, including delivery of the OzonAction newsletter and other information through the World Wide Web home page site;
(c) to approve a total amount of US $1.1 million for networking activities;
(d) the amounts of US $1.05 million approved for recurring information exchange activities, which are outlined in subparagraph (a) above, and US $1.1 million for networking activities, which are outlined in sub-paragraph (c) above, would represent caps, and the levels of funding for those activities would not be increased in future years except by a factor of up to 5 per cent to cover inflation. The levels of future funding for non-recurring activities would be considered on the basis of the individual proposals submitted by UNEP;
(f) that UNEP should have the flexibility to apportion, according to its own priorities, the amounts referred to in subparagraphs 24 (a) to 24 (c) above.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/21/36, Decision 21/14, para. 24).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/21/16).
The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee, while considering two projects on the methyl bromide sector submitted by UNEP, decided that:
(b) UNEP be requested, in its annual business planning, to examine and re-prioritize its core programme to increase the effort directed towards information dissemination and awareness-raising on emerging needs such as methyl bromide ;
(c) UNEP also be requested to make every effort to incorporate any future projects of this nature within its re-prioritized core programme.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/38, paras 63(b) and (c)).
The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to:
(b) request that similar project components (project assistance monitoring and evaluation) not come forward to future meetings of the Executive Committee;
(c) request UNEP to produce a paper showing how the 13 per cent allowance for support costs was utilized in general terms and also in specific similar projects already implemented;
(d) re-examine, in the light of the above paper, whether the other Implementing Agencies might be in a better position to implement the non-investment activities in question in an RMP within the 13 per cent agency support costs.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/31, para. 43 (b, c, d).