The Seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee adopted a methodology for consideration of project proposals, which involved placing projects in one of the following five specific categories:
1. work programme amendments: projects involving costs below US $500,000 which would be approved and funded as amendments to Implementing Agency work programmes;
2. non-approval of work programmes: projects involving costs below US $500,000 which would not be approved on policy grounds;
3. final approval: projects over US $500,000 which would be fully and finally approved and funded without the need for further documentation;
4. non-approval of projects: projects over US $500,000 which would not be approved on policy grounds; and
5. approval in principle: projects over US $500,000 which would be approved in principle and might be given some level of funding with the understanding that final approval and funding would be provided following submission of further information. The levels of funding for these projects might need to be adjusted when more adequate information was provided.
NOTE: The last category was amended to "permission to proceed".
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/7/30, para. 53).
Implementing agencies may propose within the context of their work programmes, or amendments to work programmes, requests for `permission to proceed' with the development of a group of projects.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/8/29 Annex III, para. 3.12).