The Executive Committee endorsed the following guidelines to apply them in projects which benefit enterprises that export part of their production to non-Article 5 countries:
1. where exports to non-Article 5 countries correspond to or are less than 10 per cent of total production, the total incremental costs shall be covered;
2. where exports to non-Article 5 countries exceed 10 per cent of production but do not exceed 70 per cent, there shall be a reduction equivalent to the percentage of total production represented by such exports less 10 per cent;
3. where exports to non-Article 5 countries exceed 70 per cent of production, the project shall not be eligible;
4. the average over the three years prior to submission of the project shall be used to determine production and exports to non-Article 5 countries; and
5. projects where the exports to non-Article 5 countries are in the form of agricultural or fisheries products shall be eligible for total incremental costs.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/15/45 (paras. 146, 147).
The Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat to study this question further, consulting countries as appropriate, and distribute a paper on the subject to members before the Twenty-eighth Meeting, at which it would be considered.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48, Decision 27/83, para. 122).
The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat to invite the members of the Executive Committee and the Implementing Agencies to submit comments on document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/55 to the Secretariat, to collate and analyze them and to present them to the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57, Decision 28/50, para. 94).