The Twenty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat to draw up criteria to be used as a basis for submitting future project preparation proposals. These criteria might relate to, inter alia, the rate of disbursement of funding in the country concerned, the amount of ODS reduction as a percentage of country consumption, the existence of a country programme, and other elements suggested in the Sub-Committee’s discussion.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/21/36, Decision 21/15, para. 28).
The Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) all project preparation requests should:
(i) assist countries in meeting their obligations under the Montreal Protocol, beginning with their 1999 CFC consumption freeze obligations;
(ii) be based on previous consultations and close coordination with the responsible ozone unit. Ozone units should take into consideration their national strategies in recommending project preparation;
(iii) be consistent with business planning priorities (e.g., decision 22/11).
(b) Low-volume ODS-consuming countries which have not previously received funding from the Multilateral Fund should receive funding;
(c) requests for project preparation should indicate the sector(s) concerned (e.g., aerosol, foam, fumigants (methyl bromide ), halon, production, multiple, refrigeration, several, or solvent);
(d) requests for project preparation should be considered on a case-by-case basis if:
(i) that requests for project preparation should be considered on a case-by-case basis if the request was for project preparation in a country for which projects approved, but not yet implemented, would phase-out over 80 per cent of their consumption of ozone-depleting substances, as contained in the latest available data reported to the Ozone Secretariat (superseded as per decision 30/23);
(ii) the request is from agencies whose rate of disbursement is low (for projects approved a year and a half prior to the request) in the country for which the request is made;
(e) in approving project preparation, the Executive Committee should take into account if regulatory impediments exist that might impede project implementation.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, Decision 23/51, para. 91).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/23, para. 43(a)).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/63).
The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request Implementing Agencies to inform the National Ozone Units (NOUs) of the purpose and outcome of all missions by their staff and consultants to the countries concerned, and always to involve NOUs in project identification and preparation.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/6, para. 22(e)).
The Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that, following the intent of decision 23/51, when a project preparation request was submitted for a country, and the Executive Committee had already approved projects to phase-out more than 80 per cent of the country’s baseline, the Implementing Agency should provide a clear delineation of remaining consumption in all sectors.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48, Decisions 27/28(b), 27/47(b) and 27/59(b) (paras. 54, 75 and 87).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/23, para. 43(b)).