The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the consolidated draft business plan of the Multilateral Fund for the year 2001 (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/11);
(b) to determine the appropriateness of mechanisms to ensure funding in 2001 for the compliance of Article 5 countries with the initial control measures of the Montreal Protocol, and establish the criteria for those mechanisms, if and where relevant.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/8, para. 19).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/11).
The Thirty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the planned increase in forward commitments and also the increase in the number of countries that appeared to be able to achieve compliance with the approval and implementation of planned activities in the 2001 business plan;
(d) to request the Multilateral Fund Secretariat to send a letter to Article 5 countries, in the context of future business planning, to advise on what was left of the ODS consumption in their domestic and commercial refrigeration manufacturing subsectors;
(e) to adopt a phase-out target of 13,926 ODP tonnes and a disbursement target of US $118 million for activities already financed by the Multilateral Fund to be achieved in 2001;
(f) to note the consolidated 2001 business plan of the Multilateral Fund (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/8 and Corr.1).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/4, para. 21 (a, d, e, f)).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/8 and 33/8/Corr.1).