The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
A. For the purpose of facilitating planning for the next triennium: to request the Implementing Agencies to work with national Ozone Units in those countries in which they were responsible for institutional strengthening projects, in collaboration with other agencies, in order to analyze the country's baseline data with respect to:
(i) the distribution of the baseline consumption by sector;
(ii) the reductions envisaged in the baseline as a result of investment projects already approved within each sector;
(iii) the estimated distribution between consumption for manufacturing industries and servicing/installations on site in the refrigeration sector.
The Implementing Agencies should submit a preliminary report to the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee and a final report to the Thirty-first Meeting.
B. For the purpose of clarifying data related to perceived anomalies concerning (i) phase-out in approved projects higher than the baseline consumption and (ii) cases where only a small proportion (30 per cent or less) of the funds approved at least 12 months previously for that particular country had been disbursed:
To request the Secretariat to identify the countries where such perceived anomalies occurred (on the basis of the status report);
Also to request the Secretariat to ask those countries:
- regarding B (i) above, to explain the reasons for the anomaly;
- regarding B (ii) above, to clarify the reasons for the low rate of disbursement, what assistance might be needed to overcome the problem where relevant, when the problem might be remedied, and whether they had the capacity to absorb further projects.
With reference to section B above, the Secretariat should submit a report on its findings to the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57, Decision 28/25, para. 50).
The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee also decided that, where there was an apparent discrepancy between a country’s baseline data on consumption of ozone-depleting substances, data on amounts already phased out or planned for phase-out under projects already funded with the resources of the Multilateral Fund and amounts to be phased out under projects proposed for approval, the countries and the relevant Implementing Agencies should be requested to provide an explanation of the discrepancy to the Sub-Committee on Project Review.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57, Decision 28/36, para. 68(a)).
The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee, taking into account section A of decision 28/25, decided:
(a) to express appreciation for the efforts of UNEP and UNIDO in submitting the preliminary data on countries for which they were managing the institutional strengthening projects;
(b) to stress the importance of the Implementing Agencies’ full and diligent compliance with that decision in order to facilitate planning by the Executive Committee for the next triennium;
(c) to request all the Implementing Agencies to submit a preliminary report – as requested in decision 28/25, second paragraph of section A – to the Executive Committee at its Thirtieth Meeting, with data on each category of ozone-depleting substances reported separately;
(d) to request the Secretariat to prepare a consolidated report, based on those preliminary data, for the Executive Committee at its Thirtieth Meeting, showing the estimated total quantities and percentage distribution by sector of the consumption of ozone-depleting substances (CFCs, halons, methyl bromide , CTC and 111-trichloroethane), which had not already been covered by approved investment projects, as well as – with regard to the refrigeration sector – the estimated distribution of that consumption by manufacturing on the one hand, and servicing and installations on site on the other hand. Data on each category of ozone-depleting substance should be reported separately; and
(e) to reconfirm the request in decision 28/25, second paragraph of section A, that a final report be submitted by the Implementing Agencies and the Secretariat for discussion by the Executive Committee at its Thirty-first Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/10, para. 29).
The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee, taking into account section B of decision 28/25, decided to take note of the responses received from countries where data anomalies existed.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/11, para. 30).
The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request the Implementing Agencies to submit their final reports to the Thirty-first Meeting, using the format of the consolidated report contained in Annex II to UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/19, including baseline data as well as the latest total consumption data, in time for the Secretariat to prepare and submit a consolidated report to the Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee;
(b) to request the Secretariat to include baseline data as well as the latest total consumption data in the summary in its consolidated report.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/20, para. 42).