The Thirteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to adopt the format presented in Annex VIII.3 for presentation of information on progress of implementation of country programmes and to request Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5, using the format, to present the annual information on the progress of implementation of their country programmes in accordance with the decision taken at its Tenth Meeting;
(b) the information should cover the progress of implementation for the period 1 January to 31 December and should be forwarded to the Fund Secretariat not later than three months after the end of the year to which the information relates;
(c) where a country programme is approved five months or less before the end of the year, initial information should be provided after the end of the following year for the period starting from the date of approval of the country programme;
(d) starting from the Thirteenth Meeting, decisions on each approved country programme should include a requirement for presenting information annually on progress of implementation of the country programme according to the above decisions.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/13/47 (paras. 192-193).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/13/46).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/13/47 Annex II).
The Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Committee requested Governments to present annually to the Executive Committee information on progress being made in the implementation of the country programme, in accordance with the decision of the Executive Committee on implementation of country programmes.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/17/60, Decision 17/34 para. 57).
The Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Committee, after considering the updated report on the progress of implementation of country programmes approved between February 1992 and December 1995, decided:
(a) to take note of the updated report;
(b) to note that the Secretariat would revise the document to reflect the additional progress reports submitted by the following countries: Brazil, Botswana, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Islamic Republic of Iran, and Philippines;
(c) to urge countries that had to report on the implementation of their country programmes to ensure that the reports were submitted to the Fund Secretariat by 31 March of each year;
(d) to request the Secretariat to prepare a document on the implications of using different baseline years;
(e) to invite members of the Executive Committee to submit to the Fund Secretariat in writing proposals on improving the presentation of the implementation data so that the Secretariat could propose a new format to the Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/72, Decision 20/36 para. 52).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/56).
The Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(d) to note the new data formats contained in Annex VIII.4 on implications of using different baseline years, which could be used as guidance for countries that wished to report information on progress in the implementation of their country programmes additional to the current requirements;
(e) to adopt the date of 1 May of each year as the new deadline for submission of data on the progress of implementation of country programmes for the preceding year. The new deadline would take effect in 1998.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/79/Rev.1, Decision 22/68, para. 92 (d), e)).