The Thirty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request governments, bilateral and Implementing Agencies:
(i) to take into account its expectation that, where sectoral plans were to be prepared, they would in time replace the preparation of individual projects, and where a national phase-out plan was to be prepared, it would in time replace preparation of both individual projects and terminal sector programmes;
(ii) to note that, where requests to prepare multiple sectoral phase-out projects were submitted, the submission of the first sector phase-out project had to be accompanied by a clear implementation plan, covering the coordination among the various Implementing Agencies involved and detailing how the ODS tonnes remaining to be phased out were distributed over the various sectors and how reduction in national aggregate consumption would be verified;
(iii) also to note that regional network meetings provided an ideal opportunity for the necessary coordination among governments and Implementing Agencies;
(b) to urge countries to continue the move away from a project-by-project approach to a sectoral and/or national phase-out approach, while at the same time confirming countries’ rights to submit individual projects if that approach was appropriate to their circumstances;
(c) to reaffirm the freedom of countries to choose between the options laid down in Decision 35/57 with regard to the starting point for the CFC consumption data.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/36/36, Decision 36/17, para. 52).