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Requests for compensation in the production sector

The Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(c)  to request the Subgroup to meet back-to-back with the Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee in order to seek agreement on a production sector proposal for India, every effort being made in the interim to facilitate that agreement;

(d)  to request Parties to send their requests for compensation of production sector/enterprises closures to the Secretariat and that the Secretariat advise the subgroup of such requests, as well as advise the requesting Party of the established process and relevant decision of the Executive Committee;

(e)  to note that, with the exception of the meeting referred to in subparagraph (c) above, pursuant to its mandate, the Subgroup had agreed to reconvene on the basis of need and progress achieved on outstanding issues.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48, Decision 27/82(c to e), para. 120 (c,, d, e)).

The Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to convene an informal meeting of the Subgroup to review the revised proposal with regard to the Indian discussion paper to be prepared by Canada, Italy and the United States of America during the week of 26 September 1999 in Washington D.C. An additional meeting was foreseen on the margin of the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57, Decision 28/51, para. 97(c)).

The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the Secretariat’s request to proceed with the technical audit of the CFC production sector in Argentina;

(b)  when required, to allow a country which was not a member of the Subgroup but whose project was being considered by it to attend its meetings in order to provide data and answer questions;

(c)  to request the Secretariat to draw up an inventory of the remaining production plants for substances included in Annex A and Annex B to the Montreal Protocol in Article 5 countries and to use that information to reflect on its strategic and work planning and assist it in making future recommendations to the Executive Committee pertaining to priority assignments;

(d)  also to request the Secretariat to explore, within the United Nations financial rules, the feasibility of using the competitive bid process once only to identify a small number of audit contractors who could be used from time to time, with a view to accelerating the audit process;

(e)  further to request all members of the Subgroup to provide the Secretariat with their designated focal points to facilitate future communication between meetings.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/60, para. 94).


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