The Thirty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the consolidated draft business plan of the Multilateral Fund for the year 2002 contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/5;
(b) to request Implementing Agencies to resolve data discrepancy issues before including projects from countries with data inconsistencies in their final 2002 business plans in the light of the Executive Committee’s decisions on strategic planning;
(c) to approve a resource allocation of US $176 million for the purposes of the 2002 final business plan, including US $130 million for investment projects, US $22.7 million for non-investment projects, US $20 million for bilateral co-operation, and US $3.3 million for the Secretariat/Executive Committee/Monitoring and Evaluation function;
(e) also to authorize the Secretariat to adjust the resource allocation by the amount of interest and funds returned from completed and cancelled projects when the final accounts of the Fund for 2001 were available, taking into account the balances to be returned up to the 37th Meeting;
(g) also to request the Secretariat to include in its consolidated draft business plans updated versions of the reports on the status of Article 5 countries in achieving compliance, taking into account the Executive Committee’s decisions on strategic planning;
(i) to encourage Implementing Agencies to continue to reach out to those countries at risk of non-compliance to provide proposals for activities to be included in the agencies’ final business plans.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/67, Decision 35/2, para. 26 (a, b, c, e, g, h, i).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/5).
The Thirty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the consolidated 2002 business plan of the Multilateral Fund, as contained in UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/36/8/Rev.1 and Add.1, and to convey its appreciation to Implementing Agencies for taking into account the Executive Committee’s strategic planning approach by increasing the number of country-driven and compliance-driven projects in drafting their 2002 business plans;
(b) to adopt a phase-out target from approved projects and activities amounting to 15,936 ODP tonnes for investment projects and 624 ODP tonnes for non-investment projects, and a disbursement target of US $106.28 million for investment projects;
(c) to maintain projects and activities in the 2002 business plan for countries with sectoral data discrepancies in the light of Decision 35/57;
(d) to request the Implementing Agencies to submit to the 37th Meeting addenda to their 2002 final business plans in the light of any modification to the level of resource allocation for 2002;
(e) to adopt a weighting of 10 points for the performance indicator “timely submission of progress reports” with 5 points for submission of the report on time and 5 points for submission of a revision and responses to questions within five working days after receipt of comments.
(f) noting that the overall coordination of projects was the responsibility of the country concerned, that:
(i) when CFC or ODS terminal phase-out plans were being prepared for a country, the country concerned should ensure that one agency assumed coordination for all related sectors and brought forward complete national proposals for the approval of the Executive Committee;
(ii) implementing and bilateral agencies should coordinate among themselves when preparing activities for phase-out of ODS in the servicing sector, with a view to bringing to the Executive Committee one complete national proposal for the servicing sector, in line with the principles and requirements of Decision 31/48 on Refrigerant Management Plans (RMP);
(iii) implementing and bilateral agencies should also coordinate among themselves and with the Fund Secretariat in their business planning for 2003 to ensure that countries that were at risk of non-compliance with either the halon or methyl bromide freezes and were still eligible for projects in those sectors were given special consideration;
(g) to request the Secretariat to monitor the approved and planned forward commitments in the context of business planning and reporting on progress;
(h) also to request the World Bank to provide the Secretariat with estimated figures for its forward commitments for 2003 and beyond before the end of the present Meeting and to report to the Executive Committee thereon.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/36/36, Decision 36/5, para. 38).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/36/8/Rev.1 and Add.1).