The Thirteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee requested the Implementing Agencies to review the technology suggested for dormant projects to see if it was still the best available and to advise the countries accordingly, on the understanding that the final decision as to whether to proceed with the project with the original technology would be the prerogative of the country concerned.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/13/47, para. 33).
The Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Committee, having noted the statement that there was a presumption that projects would be implemented as approved, but that technology was evolving rapidly and some degree of flexibility might be required in exceptional cases, decided:
(a) that the Implementing Agencies should exceptionally be allowed to propose changes in the technology approved by the Executive Committee for particular projects;
(b) that adequate and detailed justification should be provided for any changes proposed.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/72, Decision 20/8, para. 19 (a, b).
The Twenty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(b) to request the Fund Secretariat to prepare draft guidelines for proposals to change technology in approved projects, in collaboration with UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank, for submission to the Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(c) that no additional proposals regarding technology changes should be considered until the proposed guidelines had been developed and submitted to the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/21/36, Decision 21/7, para. 15 (b, c).