The Thirty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to establish (at the Thirty-third Meeting), an informal subgroup (composed of representatives of Colombia (facilitator), Dominican Republic, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria and the United States of America), with a mandate to discuss the draft guidelines for preparation of country programme updates.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/52, para. 79).
Subsequently, the facilitator of the informal subgroup informed the Executive Committee that emphasis had been placed on clarifying the purpose and implications of the country programme updates with regard to compliance and funding and on viewing country programmes as a tool for countries to assume greater ownership of ODS-reduction strategies under the Montreal Protocol. Given the significance of the guidelines as the platform for the shift to a country-driven approach, the group agreed that more time was required to collect the views of all concerned and outlined steps to achieve that. Therefore, the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request the Fund Secretariat to forward a letter to all members of the Executive Committee seeking further comments on documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/29 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/29/Add.1;
(b) also to request replies to the letter within a two-week period and to incorporate the comments contained in those replies into a revised version of the draft guidelines;
(c) further to request the Secretariat to distribute the revised draft guidelines via e-mail and collect a second round of comments from Executive Committee members. The Secretariat would then prepare a final version of the draft guidelines incorporating all of the comments gathered during the consultation process, and present the document for consideration at the Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/55, paras. 88-90).
(supporting documents: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/29 and 33/29/Add.1).