The Thirty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request Implementing Agencies to return all agency fees associated with remaining funds from projects. If expenditures had been incurred for support costs, the Implementing Agencies should provide an explanation and return the balance of funds.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/35/67, Decision 35/13, para. 41 (k)).
The Thirty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the World Bank to return agency support costs for all project savings and cancelled projects as stipulated in Executive Committee Decision 35/13(k), while noting that the issue of the return of agency support costs should be considered in the context of reconciliation of the Accounts of the Multilateral Fund and the Implementing Agency progress reports.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/71, Decision 37/7, para. 33 (e)).
The Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(c) to withhold $1,159,980 from fund transfers to the World Bank at the 38th Meeting as the World Bank had not provided sufficient explanations for not returning those support costs and any further consideration of the matter should be made contingent on the World Bank providing information required by the Secretariat for its assessments of the Bank’s compliance with Decision 35/13(k);
(d) to note that the only circumstances under which it would be possible for a portion of the support costs from cancelled projects and completed projects with savings not to be returned according to United Nations practice was when a fee was paid by the Implementing Agency to a financial intermediary to undertake a financial evaluation of the enterprise before project implementation, and the project was subsequently cancelled.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/7, para. 38 (c, d)).
The Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the reports submitted to the Secretariat on projects with implementation delays provided by Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, and the four Implementing Agencies, as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/10;
(b) to request the Government of Japan to provide a report on the projects classified with implementation delays as a matter of urgency;
(c) to note that the Secretariat and Implementing Agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessment of status, i.e., progress, some progress, or no progress, and to report and notify Governments and Implementing Agencies as required.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/87, Decision 41/8, para. 39(a, b, c)).
The Forty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the reports submitted to the Secretariat on projects with implementation delays provided by Belgium, Canada, Germany and the four Implementing Agencies, as contained in the document on project implementation delays (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/15);
(b) to request the Government of France to provide reports on the projects classified with implementation delays as a matter of urgency;
(c) to note that the Secretariat and the Implementing Agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessment of status, i.e., progress, some progress, or no progress, and report and notify governments and Implementing Agencies as required.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54, Decision 42/15 (a, b, c), para. 70 (a-c)).
The Forty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the reports submitted to the Secretariat on projects with implementation delays provided by Canada, France, Germany and the four Implementing Agencies, as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/17;
(b) to request UNEP, on behalf of the Government of Japan, to provide a report to the 44th Meeting of the Executive Committee on the project “Assistance for a national information, education and communication campaign for compliance with the Montreal Protocol” in Nigeria, which had been classified as a project with implementation delays;
(c) to note that the Secretariat and Implementing Agencies would take established actions according to the Secretariat’s assessment of status, i.e., progress, some progress, or no progress, and notify governments and Implementing Agencies as required and report thereon to the next Executive Committee Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/61, Decision 43/12 (a, b, c), para. 68).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/16).