The Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) that the report should be updated on an annual basis;
(b) that, to improve the usefulness of the document, further status reports should include information on both CFC production and consumption, CFC freeze level data on the basis of the 1995-1997 baseline, and information on halon production and consumption, as well as general information on overall economic growth;
(c) that Article 5 Parties should be strongly encouraged to provide their own assessment of whether they would be able to meet the 1999 freeze. The Secretariat, working with the Implementing Agencies, should develop and distribute a questionnaire seeking that assessment from Article 5 Parties;
(d) to request the Implementing Agencies to increase their focus on those Parties that had not yet received assistance from the Multilateral Fund, all of which were low-volume-consuming countries (LVCs).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/79/Rev.1, Decision 22/12, para. 27).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/13).
The Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee took note of the summary status report and decided:
(a) to request Implementing Agencies to address the findings in paragraph 35 of the Sub-Committee’s report in their 1999 business plans, including how to complete or accelerate preparation of country programmes so as to ensure that all countries had data against which to report and measure progress in time for the 1999 freeze;
(b) to request the Secretariat, in consultation with the Implementing Agencies, to prepare a summary table providing information for each country with the following data: funds approved to date; funds disbursement; percentage of approved funds disbursed; 13 per cent support costs; pertinent consumption data; approved ODP phase-out for the country; actual ODP phased out; percentage of approved consumption phased out; the approved phase-out in the production sector; and a synthesis of information readily available to the Secretariat on performance of national ozone units.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/25/68, Decision 25/12, para. 34).
The Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request the Secretariat to update the summary status report and submit it to the Executive Committee at its second meeting each year;
(b) also to request the Secretariat to ensure that data in its documents were consistent and to take steps to validate and update the data;
(c) further to request the Secretariat to ensure that the column on consumption included the applicable baseline for each group of substances for which the Multilateral Fund considers projects and to provide information on the sectoral distribution and, if available, on the distribution between the manufacturing and servicing sectors.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/26/70, Decision 26/7, para. 22).
The Thirty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the update report on the status of Article 5 countries in the new phase of the Executive Committee in achieving compliance with the initial control measures of the Montreal Protocol as contained in UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/18 and Corr.1, and request the Secretariat to continue to update this report at subsequent meetings, taking into account the comments received;
(b) to request the relevant Article 5 countries and implementing and bilateral agencies to use the information contained in this report (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/18 and Corr.1) as a basis for all future business planning;
(c) to request the Secretariat to write to the Government of the Bahamas for an explanation of the CFC data reported to the Fund Secretariat on the implementation of country programme that exceeds by more than 50 per cent the agreed maximum level of consumption for 2001 according to the Bahamas national phase-out agreement;
(d) to urge Costa Rica, Georgia, Ghana, Lebanon, Malawi, Morocco, Peru, Turkey and Uruguay to expedite the implementation of their phase-out agreements and projects to achieve the freeze in methyl bromide consumption;
(e) to request Argentina, China, Croatia and Romania to reconsider their CTC data to ensure that CTC for feedstock is not included;
(f) to note that the negative data for Argentina’s halon consumption in 2001 reported to the Fund Secretariat on the implementation of country programme reflected the exportation of halon for that year when no halon was consumed or produced by Argentina;
(g) to note that there was an error in the Ozone Secretariat data concerning El Salvador’s consumption of methyl bromide, which was zero ODP tonnes; and
(h) to note that Syria reported that the Government of Jordan and the Secretariat were discussing Jordan’s ongoing consumption data.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/71, Decision 37/16, para. 42).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/18 and Corr.1).