The Nineteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Implementing Agencies and countries to include with each project proposal submitted for approval by the Executive Committee a brief description of how the project would contribute to helping the country to achieve the 1999 freeze.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/64, Decision 19/4, para. 19).
The Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Committee, decided:
(a) to request Implementing Agencies to bear in mind, when preparing their business plans and deciding how to allocate projects among sectors, the commitments and control measures already in the Protocol, with which all countries were expected to comply;
(b) to call on the agencies to fully implement decision 19/4 when submitting projects to forthcoming meetings of the Executive Committee;
(c) to examine the status of implementation of decision 19/4 at its Twenty-first Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/72, Decision 20/3, para. 13).
The Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to reaffirm the importance of Decisions 19/4 and 20/3, in including in the project documents a brief description of how the project would contribute to helping the country concerned achieve the 1999 freeze;
(b) to recommend that the requirement of those Decisions could be effected by including the sector background in the project description being circulated to members of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/79/Rev.1, Decision 22/20, para. 38).
The Executive Committee at its Twenty-third Meeting, having noted the Sub-Committee on Project Review comments on the need for a project proposal to provide the best possible information on how the project would contribute to attaining the 1999 freeze, decided:
(a) to stress the critical need for the Implementing Agencies to assume responsibility for the accuracy of the data they provided in project proposals they put forward for funding;
(b) to reiterate that proposals for renewal of institutional strengthening projects should contain a history of what the ozone unit had done since its inception, together with a plan for its future activities, and that the renewal requests should be forwarded to the Executive Committee for its consideration;
(c) to reinforce the need for compliance with Decision 22/63 regarding the conditions for project approval when counterpart funding was involved.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, Decision 23/21, para. 45).
The Executive Committee also decided:
(a) to request the Implementing Agencies to be more specific on how projects would assist countries to meet the freeze.
(b) to request the Implementing Agencies to reconsider the allocation of resources in their revised business plans to be submitted to the first meeting of the Sub-Committee in 1998.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, Decision 23/39, para. 67).
The Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to take note of the summary status report of the survey conducted by the Secretariat on ODS phase-out in Article 5 countries (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/15);
(b) to request the Implementing Agencies to attempt to reconcile the sector consumption data against the data from the Ozone Secretariat, taking into account the fact that the sectoral data should be seen as estimated breakdowns of the data officially reported to the Ozone Secretariat, and to report this information to the Committee at its Thirty-fourth meeting;
(c) to urge the national ozone units to provide the Implementing Agencies with the breakdown of refrigeration sector data into servicing and manufacturing, for their own planning purposes as well as for planning by the Executive Committee;
(d) to request the Secretariat, in its future annual reports on the status of ODS sector consumption in Article 5 countries, to further adjust the tables contained in the annexes to document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/15 to include sector totals and the related percentages, and to introduce totals of the data while indicating all caveats concerning the reliability of the data which the Secretariat may consider necessary;
(e) to request the Secretariat to update the tables with the most recent data available;
(f) that the Secretariat should explore the implications of and modalities for strengthening the data management function within the Secretariat to ensure accuracy, comparability and efficiency in data collection, and in so doing liaise with relevant Article 5 countries and those providing and receiving data.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/61, Decision 31/12, para. 31).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/15).