Upon receipt of a project proposal submitted by an Article 5 country, the Secretariat will send it to the Implementing Agency if so designated by the country. For those projects submitted with no Implementing Agency identified, the Secretariat would identify and negotiate for the participation of the appropriate Implementing Agency (and for its inclusion in their next work programme).
The Implementing Agency will establish the necessary contacts with the Article 5 country concerned and elaborate the project documentation to meet all the necessary requirements. The Secretariat will evaluate the project documentation for submission to the Executive Committee. Countries are encouraged to consult with the Secretariat during the course of any project preparation in order to produce comprehensive and consistent documentation.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/3/18/Rev.1 Annex III (section II.3.3).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/5/16, para. 28b).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/7/30 Annex III, para. 8-10).
The Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) that no project proposals should be submitted to the Executive Committee until agreement had been reached between the Implementing Agency and the Secretariat on the cost of items of capital equipment and the operating costs required to implement the project;
(b) where no agreement had been achieved, the underlying basis of the disagreement should be presented to the Executive Committee for consideration prior to consideration of the project.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/72, Decision 20/15, para. 15).