The Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note that the Multilateral Fund had been established to enable Article 5 countries to comply with the Montreal Protocol. The model three-year phase-out plan, as adjusted and corrected taking into account actions taken at the 38th Meeting of the Executive Committee, inter alia, suggested the reductions that would presumably be needed over the next three years to enable the compliance of all Article 5 countries with the interim compliance measures that had to be met in 2005 and 2007;
(b) to adopt the model three-year phase-out plan, as revised, as an important guide that should be considered by UNDP, UNIDO, the World Bank and, as appropriate, bilateral agencies, in the preparation of the annual and/or multi-year business plans of the agencies during the 2003 to 2005 triennium. The model may be further revised taking into consideration guidance provided by the 14th Meeting of the Parties, if any (and any further changes, consistent with and agreed under Decision 35/57 and related decisions as regards tables 1 to 4 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/58 and any changes agreed by the Secretariat and interested parties as regards tables 5 to 7, taking into account more detailed country specific information, where available);
(c) to request UNDP, UNIDO the World Bank and bilateral agencies, as appropriate, to take into account the ODS phase-out generated by the model as a basis for the preparation of multi-year agreements and consider allocating the annual funding tranches accordingly;
(d) that the Secretariat should report to the Executive Committee after each meeting of the Sub-Committee on Project Review regarding any changes or modification to the model three-year phase-out plan, and the possible implications that that may have for the approval of future projects presumed to be necessary to enable compliance;
(e) to urge Article 5 countries and their co-operating Implementing Agencies to accelerate the pace of implementation during the 2003 to 2005 timeframes, considering that the model also demonstrates that compliance over the next three years will also rest on the timely implementation of the very large number of already approved but unimplemented projects;
(f) to request the Secretariat to update the model at each last meeting of the Executive Committee of the calendar year for the following three years, in order to have a rolling model three-year ODS phase-out plan.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/66, para. 111).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/58).
The Thirty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to express its deep appreciation for the work of the Secretariat in the transition period from project-driven to compliance-driven planning, and for the Chief Officer’s extraordinary guidance, talent and innovation in general and in formulating a new funding method based on strategic planning for the Multilateral Fund.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/43, Decision 39/2, para. 22(b)).
The Thirty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to take note of the report on financial planning for the triennium 2003-2005 contained in UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/7;
(b) to adopt a resource allocation of US $224 million in 2003, US $191 million in 2004, and US $158 million in 2005;
(c) to urge countries with economies in transition that had not previously paid to pay their contributions to the Fund for the 2003-2005 triennium to enable the compliance of Article 5 countries with the 2005 and 2007 control measures of the Montreal Protocol, and to avoid shortfalls arising from non-payment or delayed payment of pledged contributions during the compliance period for Article 5 countries;
(d) also to urge contributing Parties to make their payments for the year 2003 by June 2003, in accordance with paragraph 7 of decision XI/6 of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties, to enable the timely implementation of the three-year phase-out plan;
(e) that the US $248 million in resources available for new commitments should be allocated according to the compliance needs of Article 5 countries;
(f) that the total allocation for the bilateral projects during the triennium, 2003-2005, was US $47.4 million for planning purposes only, not as an absolute cap on the value of bilateral projects that could be submitted;
(g) to request contributing Parties that had not submitted an annual business plan for 2003 and/or a three-year business plan to do so prior to the 40th Meeting of the Executive Committee;
(h) also to request the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance to consider, at its 20th Meeting, the allocation of any resources from the total bilateral allocation not anticipated to be required by contributing Parties based on the bilateral business plan submitted to the 40th Meeting of the Executive Committee, in view of the compliance requirements of all Article 5 Parties;
(i) to note that the level of the bilateral allocation planned for the triennium did not limit the right of a party to use up to 20 per cent of its contribution for bilateral projects.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/43, Decision 39/5, para. 36).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/8/Rev.1).
Also, at its Thirty-ninth Meeting, the Executive Committee decided not to consider project proposals for phase-out that was not included in the 2003-2005 phase-out plan of the Multilateral Fund until the availability of funding for accelerated phase-out had been clarified and appropriate criteria for approval had been adopted.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/39/43, Decision 39/49, para. 87).