The Thirty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to approve the Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) budget for UNEP (Annex V.1), with the following conditions:
(a) the use of this budget and related CAP employees shall not be used for implementation of projects approved before 2002;
(b) UNEP will submit a preliminary report to the 38th Meeting of the Executive Committee on the use of the programme support cost, with a detailed report to be submitted at the 40th Meeting in 2003;
(c) UNEP should also report to the Executive Committee during 2002 on the progress made in the implementation of the CAP programme, specifically on the lessons learned during the first steps of CAP implementation;
(d) funds approved annually for the CAP but not spent should be returned to the Multilateral Fund for re-programming at the second meeting of the Executive Committee in the year following that for which they had been approved;
(e) consideration by the Executive Committee should be given to benefit of developing a unified budget in future years, and UNEP should provide a proposal for such a budget at the 38th Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/67, Decision 35/36, para. 69).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/26).
The Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request UNEP, in the preparation of future budgets, to take into account the comments and concerns expressed by the Sub-Committee and, if possible, to prepare unified budgets, internalizing the programme support costs, if necessary in an indicative way.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/36, para. 69 (b)).
The Fortieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to set targets for UNEP’s CAP with a view to full data reporting by Article 7 Parties based on the following performance indicators:
(i) number of countries with missing data that received specific CAP assistance for data reporting in order to determine compliance baselines. UNEP should give a clear indication of the assistance provided; and
(ii) number of countries reporting data in compliance with Article 7 of the Protocol.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/40/50, Decision 40/11, para. 49(b)).
The Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(b) to consider future programme support costs on the basis of a future Executive Committee decision taken after consideration of the investigation to be carried out by UNEP, as recommended in paragraph 74 below; and
(c) to review the CAP budget in one year’s time on the basis of the results achieved, including its contribution to the regional networks, in consultation with the countries in the region.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/87, Decision 41/38(b, c), para. 73).
The Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to investigate how it could prepare unified budgets for the Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP), possibly based on the concept of the general trust funds and integrating all the administrative costs and related expenses, as well as programme support costs, into an administrative budget; and
(b) to submit the result of the above investigation to the 43rd Meeting of the Executive Committee for its consideration.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/87, Decision 41/39, para. 74).