The Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request the Fund Secretariat to produce a paper containing figures on an analysis of what projects were being submitted for funding using HCFC technologies, to see whether there existed any trend towards or away from HCFC use in specific sectors, particularly the foam sector;
(b) to request the Secretariat to incorporate the following elements in the project evaluation sheets and, in the case of (i) below, in the list of projects and activities presented to the Committee for approval:
(i) information on the conversion technology to be used;
(ii) a comprehensive outline of the reasons for selection of the HCFC technology, if used; and, where possible,
(iii) an indication of how long an enterprise intended to use a transitional HCFC technology.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, Decision 23/20, para. 42).
The Executive Committee at its Twenty-seventh Meeting expressed its appreciation for the increased information/justification provided for the selection of HCFCs and noted that that was the level of information originally expected, and that at least that level was expected in the future; stressed to the Implementing Agencies that it considered this to be more than a paper exercise, and urged the Agencies to take seriously the obligations related to providing information on alternatives available; and decided, in recognition of Article 2F of the Montreal Protocol, to request that Implementing Agencies provide, for all future projects or groups of projects for HCFCs from any country, a letter from the Government concerned. In the letter, the country should:
(a) verify that it had reviewed the specific situations involved with the project(s) as well as its HCFC commitments under Article 2F;
(b) state if it had nonetheless determined that, at the present time, the projects needed to use HCFCs for an interim period;
(c) state that it understood that no funding would be available for the future conversion from HCFCs for these companies.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48, Decision 27/13, para. 35).
The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that information on a possible study comparing costs of alternative technologies and the impact on their choice of support from the Multilateral Fund should be the subject of a separate agenda item for its Twenty-ninth Meeting, for consideration by the Executive Committee itself.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57, Decision 28/28, para. 54).
The Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat, in relation to all future projects which involved conversion to HCFC-141b, to include in the meeting documentation the letter from the Government concerned, explaining the reasons for the choice of the technology, as per Decisions 23/20 and 27/13.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/58, Decision 34/51, para. 71).