The Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Implementing Agencies to finalize their 1999 business plans, taking into account the following considerations:
(a) the total amount not allocated in the consolidated draft 1999 business plans should remain unallocated but be assigned to the production sector as a priority;
(b) no agency should be allowed to submit projects in excess of its allocation;
(c) the allocation for methyl bromide in the business plans should be considered adequate, but this did not prejudge any decision on the level of funding for the two large-scale investment projects in Brazil and Argentina;
(d) in view of the large number of projects that could conceivably raise policy issues, the Committee should accelerate the resolution of the relevant policy issues, as well as guidelines still pending;
(e) to request the Secretariat to determine the level of ODS phase-out targets for each agency for each year for future business plans based on progress reports and to ask the Implementing Agencies to explain any deviation from that level;
(f) that UNEP should adjust its business plan:
(i) to reduce the number of regional halon banking management plans to one pilot programme;
(ii) to rationalize the number of methyl bromide activities and to provide more information on the delivery mechanism, output and content of such activities.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/26/70, Decision 26/8, para. 24).
The Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee also urged the Implementing Agencies to take into account the specific comments made by the members of the Sub-Committee in relation to their business plans in the revision of those plans to be submitted for final approval by the Executive Committee at its first meeting in 1999.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/26/70, Decision 26/9, para. 25).
The Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to take note of the consolidated business plan;
(b) to approve the following targets for ODS phase-out calculated by the Secretariat in accordance with decision 26/8 (e):
(c) to reaffirm the minimum disbursement target of 70 per cent of project funds approved up to the end of 1998 for investment projects;
(d) to set a target for all agencies of 100 per cent for submission of project completion reports, taking into account that the project completion report should be submitted six months after completion of the project.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48, Decision 27/2, para. 21).