The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) that the question of strategic planning should be discussed informally immediately prior to the Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee and should also be included in the agenda of that Meeting for formal consideration;
(b) to request those members who had made detailed comments to submit them in written form to the Secretariat as early as possible;
(c) to request the Secretariat to prepare a paper containing the above comments and to provide it, together with the information summary prepared by the meeting of the informal advisory group, held in Paris from 19-21 January 2000, to Executive Committee members for the informal discussions to be held immediately prior to the Thirty-first Meeting;
(d) that the development of an overall strategy should be thorough and careful;
(e) that, in the meantime, however, in order to facilitate the process, to request the Implementing Agencies involved with institutional strengthening in those Article 5 countries unable to comply with the CFC freeze and also with the 2002 freeze on halons and methyl bromide to contact urgently the National Ozone Units of the countries concerned to assess what activities may need to be undertaken to ensure compliance; and
(f) to request the Implementing Agencies and the Secretariat to report to the Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee on the results of the above contacts with the National Ozone Units with proposals for recommendations to be taken into account by the Executive Committee in their deliberations on activities of the Implementing Agencies.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/57, para. 88).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/35).