The Thirty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to convene, back-to-back with the 38th Meeting of the Executive Committee and prior to it, an informal meeting of a working group to consider revised draft guidelines for the preparation, implementation and management of performance-based substance-wide and national phase-out agreements/plans, on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, in an endeavor to resolve outstanding issues prior to their submission to the Executive Committee;
(b) to invite all interested members of the Committee, as well as representatives of the Implementing Agencies, to participate in the meeting, under the Chairmanship of the representative of Japan;
(c) to request the Secretariat, as preparation for that meeting:
(i) to compile a revision of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/65 containing, within the specific paragraphs concerned, the bracketed proposals for addition and amendment made at the current Meeting and, after the specific paragraphs concerned, the requests for clarification made and the responses of the Secretariat;
(ii) to circulate the revised document to all members of the Executive Committee, soliciting their comments thereon, to be submitted to the Secretariat by 19 August 2002;
(iii) on the basis of the feedback received, to prepare a new version of the revision, for submission to the informal meeting of the working group.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/71, Decision 37/67, para. 109).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/37/65).