The Executive Committee requested Implementing Agencies to ensure that adequate guarantees were obtained from technology vendors when technology transfer was to be replicated within the country.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/15/45, para. 97).
The Executive Committee, noting that several of the project proposals submitted included requests for the cost of the same technology transfer fees, from the same supplier, for projects in the same country, decided to request Implementing Agencies and countries:
(a) to ensure that technology transfer fees wherever possible were negotiated to cover groups of projects in which conversion was to take place;
(b) to negotiate the best possible terms when the technology in question was to be used at multiple locations;
(c) to append evidence of such negotiations to the project submissions.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/17/60, Decision 17/4 para. 12).
The Eighth Meeting of the Parties decided:
1. to note the status of preparation of the report on transfer of technology required by Action 21 of decision VII/22;
2. to set up an Informal Group consisting of four representatives of Parties not operating under Article 5 (1) (Australia, Italy, Netherlands, United States of America) and four representatives of Parties operating under Article 5 (1) (China, Colombia, Ghana, India) to assist the Executive Committee in identifying what steps can practically be taken to eliminate potential impediments to the transfer of ozone-friendly technologies to Parties operating under Article 5 under fair and most favorable conditions;
3. the Group may meet as necessary and shall submit its reports, if any, to the Executive Committee;
4. to review this matter at its Ninth Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.8/12, Decision VIII/7, paras. 3-6).
The Ninth Meeting of the Parties decided to request the Executive Committee, with the assistance of the Informal Group, to expeditiously identify steps that can practically be taken to eliminate potential impediments to the transfer of ozone-friendly technologies to Parties operating under Article 5 under fair and most favorable conditions.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.9/12, Decision IX/14, para. 4).
The Executive Committee at its Twenty-third Meeting noted the report of the Facilitator of the informal group established by the Meeting of the Parties to deal with the question of technology transfer that the group had met and discussed several issues and had examined information received from the Parties. It had agreed that the discussions should continue and that a further meeting of the group should be held on 22 March 1998, immediately preceding the Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, para. 97).