Financial and technical assistance from the Multilateral Fund shall be available only to Article 5 Parties and in compliance with the requirements of the Protocol, to facilitate compliance with the control measures set out in Articles 2A to 2E of the Protocol and to finance the incremental costs incurred in meeting these requirements.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/3/18/Rev.1 Annex III (section III).
All technical assistance and pre-investment activities shall be provided in the form of grants or, in certain circumstances, in-kind support. At the request of an Article 5 Party, in-kind support can be provided in the form of expert personnel, technology, technical documentation and training.
The Fund Secretariat and the Implementing Agencies shall co-operate with the Parties to provide information on funding available for projects, to secure the necessary contacts and to coordinate, when requested by the interested Party, projects financed from other sources with activities financed under the Protocol.
The financing of activities or other costs, including resources channeled to third Party beneficiaries, shall require the concurrence of the recipient Governments concerned. Recipient Governments shall, where appropriate, be associated with the planning of projects and programmes. Nothing shall preclude an Article 5 Party from applying for its requirements for agreed incremental costs solely from the resources available to the Multilateral Fund.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/2/3 Appendix IV of Decision II/8, para. 21-23).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/2/3 Annex IV, Appendix IV).
The Sixth Meeting of the Parties decided that the Executive Committee will consider projects from Parties temporarily classified as operating under Article 5. The projects approved when such temporary classification is operative will continue to be funded even if the countries subsequently are reclassified as not operating under Article 5 on receipt of data. However, no project will be sanctioned during a period during which the country is classified as not operating under Article 5.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/6/7 Decision VI/5, para. b).