The Fifteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee recommended the following procedure for use by the Committee for releasing funds exclusively to projects cleared for approval during the Fifteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee:
1. the Executive Committee will add a new procedure called `cleared for approval pending availability of funds'. Projects cleared for approval will be identified in the Report of the Meeting with their corresponding recommended levels of funding.
2. to comply with the Terms of Reference for the Multilateral Fund, the projects cleared for approval do not constitute a financial commitment from the Committee until sufficient contributions are received.
3. when sufficient funds have been received, the Treasurer, through the Fund Secretariat, will notify all members of the Executive Committee and will release the recommended levels of funding to the pertinent agency. Such release of funds will be recorded in the Report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee.
4. projects cleared for approval at the Fifteenth Meeting will take precedence over other projects submitted subsequently to the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/15/45, para. 121).
The Sixteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee approved a framework that was transparent, objective and fair, and addressed the situation where the projects submitted exceeded the resources available (under the framework, resources would be divided into distinct slices for various categories of projects, including slices for low-consuming countries and support projects).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/20 (paras. 17, 23).
The Sixteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to implement on a trial basis for projects submitted to the Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Committee the following operation framework whereby projects could be prioritized, and that it should be reviewed at the Eighteenth Meeting: the Executive Committee will approve eligible projects, but if the projects submitted exceeded the resources available it would approve projects up to the amounts available. Any remaining eligible projects would be for priority funding at the next meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/20 (paras. 24, 32a).
The Sixteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee agreed to reserve:
(a) US $8,379,591 as a discretionary fund which could be applied to projects, sectors, or countries it might wish to target or give special consideration to in 1995;
(b) US $3,900,000 for funding recycling projects (including halon banking);
(c) US $6,630,000 exclusively for allocation to projects from low-ODS-consuming countries. This amount would be in addition to any funds received as a result of approval of projects from low-ODS-consuming countries that qualified under the cost-effectiveness thresholds listed above;
(d) US $5 million to cover 1995 Implementing Agency work programmes and support projects, US $3,157,851 of which had been approved at the current meeting under agenda item 6; and
(e) US $13 million to account for bilateral activities that could be applied against 1995 contributions from non-Article 5 countries.
(f) the Executive Committee noted that it was difficult to determine cost-effectiveness thresholds for the mobile air conditioner and compressor sub-sectors and therefore agreed that an amount of US $8,900,000 should be reserved for funding these projects in 1995.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/16/20, para. 32).
The Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Committee adopted a framework for resource allocation, the solution set out in Annex IX.8. Under that solution, projects that had been recommended for blanket approval at the Seventeenth Meeting would be submitted to the Executive Committee for its approval up to the limit of funds available. Any projects with blanket approval not funded at the Seventeenth Meeting would go to the Eighteenth Meeting without further review. In addition, projects listed in Annex I of the overview of issues identified during project review (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/17/3 Rev.1), together with projects listed in Annex II of the report of the Sub-Committee on Project Review if resubmitted by the Implementing Agencies, would be reviewed by the Secretariat and the Project Review Sub-Committee prior to the Eighteenth Meeting. Both those categories would be funded ahead of new projects received. Projects in these categories recommended for approval would form a consolidated list with the blanket approval projects remaining from the Seventeenth Meeting, and that list of projects would have priority for funding over any new projects submitted to the Eighteenth Meeting. Similarly, eligible projects not funded at the Eighteenth Meeting would be carried over to the Nineteenth Meeting and be funded ahead of any new projects received.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/17/60, Decision 17/20 para. 29a).
The Eighteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided :
(a) that any new project proposals submitted to, but not funded at, the Eighteenth Meeting should form part of the 1996 business plans of the Implementing Agencies and be funded ahead of new projects submitted to the Nineteenth Meeting. Commencing in 1997, all new projects approved by the Executive Committee would receive funding in accordance with the business plans;
(b) that, when allocating resources for 1996, the Executive Committee should adhere to the framework, sector allocations and methodologies agreed and applied at its Sixteenth and Seventeenth Meetings.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/18/75, Decision 18/11a, b para. 23).
The Nineteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) in accordance with decision 18/11, subparagraph (a), to approve for funding at the Nineteenth Meeting the projects and activities approved as eligible for funding, but not funded, at the Eighteenth Meeting, as indicated in Annex IV to the report of that Meeting (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/18/75);
(b) to approve as eligible for funding the projects and activities listed in Annex IV to the final report of the meting;
(c) to note that, since the projects carried over from the Eighteenth Meeting, the four institutional-strengthening extensions and the UNEP work programme together totaled US $28,106,763, giving a remaining balance of US $1,715,388, no funds were currently available for the new investment projects, the cost of which amounted to approximately US $21.8 million; and
(d) in view of the likelihood that an amount of funds to cover the new projects approved for funding would be deposited relatively soon, as stated by the Treasurer and certain members of the Executive Committee in the course of the Meeting, to request the Treasurer, when sufficient funds have been received, to notify all members of the Executive Committee, through the Fund Secretariat, and to release the recommended levels of funding to the pertinent agencies, in order to fund simultaneously all of the new projects approved for funding.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/19/64, Decision 19/14, para. 32).
The Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request the Secretariat to work together with the Implementing Agencies to charge some items in the non-investment category to other categories in order to allow more room in the non-investment category;
(b) to request the Secretariat to define separately a specific figure for institutional strengthening projects under the non-investment category.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, Decision 23/45, para. 73).
At the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee the balance of the Multilateral Fund resources available for committal stood at about US $19.6 million, while the projects recommended for approval at the meeting totaled about US $83.6 million. Therefore, the Executive Committee decided that the Work Programme Amendments and the UNEP Work Programme for 2000 should be funded first, followed by the most cost-effective projects, to be determined on a percentile basis. As further contributions were received, the Treasurer would be instructed to release the funds for approved projects immediately to the Implementing Agencies concerned.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/66, paras. 95 and96).