Bearing in mind the earlier decision of the Executive Committee (19/36) requiring Article 5 countries to submit data on production capacity by 31 December 1996, the Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to approve US $600,000 to be used by the Secretariat for conducting technical audits;
(b) that the Secretariat arrange for technical audits to be carried out in accordance with Decision 19/36 in those countries that have submitted satisfactory data on the production sector according to the agreed format and subject to the views of any Subgroup member on these data;
(c) that funding requests for sectoral plans and project preparation can be submitted for consideration of the Executive Committee once data have been submitted, in accordance with subparagraph (b) above;
(d) to request the Subgroup to examine further the issues related to timing and funding of production sector related activities at its next meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47, Decision 24/61, para. 94).
The Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee noted the report of its Subgroup on the Production Sector and decided to adopt the following recommendations of the Subgroup:
(a) requests for project preparation funds could be forwarded to the Subgroup for submission to the Executive Committee once preliminary production data and the draft sectoral plan for the country had been submitted;
(b) with regard to the project proposal for which China had received preparation funds, if China was disposed to submit an innovative project proposal prior to the final receipt of the audited data, it could informally submit such a project proposal to the Subgroup Facilitator for circulation to members of the Subgroup for comment and an opinion on whether the project as formulated in a way could possibly be reviewed by the Sub-Committee on Project Review at its next meeting in Cairo in November 1998;
(c) if the Subgroup Facilitator determined, after examining the comments, that the Sub-Committee on Project Review might review the project, the Facilitator would make the specific comments on the proposal available to the Sub-Committee on Project Review. If the Sub-Committee decided to review and to recommend approval of the project, final approval would probably be subject to confirmation of the figures therein by the technical audit and the presentation of a final sectoral strategy;
(d) other CFC-producing Article 5 countries wishing to request funds for project preparation must meet the requirements laid down in earlier decisions of the Executive Committee in this regard, submit the data and a draft sectoral strategy according to the approved format so that the procedure outlined for China could be followed in their case as well.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/25/68, Decision 25/55, para. 103).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/25/67).
The Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to authorize the Secretariat to commission a technical audit of carbon tetrachloride- and trichloroethane-producing enterprises in China, and CFC-producing enterprises in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/61, Decision 31/47, para. 75(a)).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/56).
The Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to take note of the final report on the technical audit of the CFC production sector in Mexico;
(b) to request the Secretariat to send to members of the Sub-group the comments of the Government of Mexico on the audit report as well as the response of the consultant to the comments;
(c) to request UNIDO to take fully into account the findings of the audit report in preparing the CFC closure project.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/73, para. 135).
With regard to the request of the Secretariat for further replenishing the account for the technical audit of the production sector, the Executive Committee decided at its Thirty-eighth Meeting of to approve US $100,000 to enable the Secretariat to meet the commitments and planned commitment under this account.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/75, para. 137).