The Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request UNEP, in consultation with the Secretariat, the Implementing Agencies and members of the Executive Committee, to review the proposed guidelines for refrigeration management plans and bring forward a revised proposal to the September 1997 meeting of the Sub-Committee on Project Review, with comments from members of the Executive Committee to be provided by the end of June 1997;
(b) to authorize low-volume-consuming countries that have approved country programmes and now need to take near-term action in this area to meet the freeze, to submit refrigeration management plans based on the draft guidelines recommended by the Sub-Committee on Project Review (with the input coming from the consultations noted in subparagraph (a) above) along with any associated projects, to the next meeting of the Executive Committee and, in this respect, to approve US $140,000 for UNDP and US $60,000 for UNIDO for this purpose;
(c) to urge the Implementing Agencies not to view this discussion as an opportunity to develop recycling programmes, but rather as an opportunity to help countries think through the measures they need to take to facilitate compliance with the Protocol. In this regard, recycling projects should not be proposed unless there are incentives or regulatory measures that will be in place prior to proposed implementation of any proposed recycling projects to ensure that such projects will be sustainable;
(d) to request UNEP to adjust country programmes presently under preparation to accommodate the requirements of the draft guidelines for refrigeration management plans as recommended by the Sub-Committee on Project Review and to urgently finish that work;
(e) in cases where no country programmes for very-low-/low-volume-consuming Parties have yet to be started, to request UNEP to reach out to those countries to develop refrigeration management plan/country programme combination documents based on the draft guidelines, authorizing US $200,000 for this initial UNEP work and requesting UNEP to report on the status of related activities at the Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/79/Rev.1, Decision 22/24, para. 42).
The Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that the Guidelines for the Preparation of Refrigerant Management Plans be approved (Annex IX.17).
The Executive Committee also noted that the focus of guidelines for refrigerant management plans was on low-volume consuming countries (LVCs), but that those guidelines were sufficiently flexible to allow them to be used by larger countries.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68, Decision 23/15, paras. 35 and 36).
The Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that, in the preparation of RMPs, it was not necessary for unduly restrictive conditionalities to be set. However, at the time of approval of an RMP, it was highly important that a clear political commitment be shown by the country concerned and that the RMP be prepared in a high-quality, comprehensive way, containing a strategy, including institutional and legislative aspects, for phasing out CFCs in the entire sector, and including consideration of how to approach the problem of the informal sector.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47, Decision 24/24, para. 47).
The Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request UNEP to organize, in association with the 10th Meeting of the Parties, a workshop involving bilateral donors, the Implementing Agencies and the Secretariat, to review experience to date with RMPs, in order to improve the quality of the preparation and implementation of RMP projects.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/25/68, Decision 25/25, para. 54 (b)).
The Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee also decided to request that the possibility of carrying out more cost-effective regional training be considered in future refrigerant management plans projects.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/25/68, Decision 25/32, para. 64 (c)).
The Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to invite members and Implementing Agencies, including those involved in bilateral co-operation, to communicate their views and field experience to the Secretariat in writing to be used as input for discussions by the contact group (composed of Algeria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Canada, Italy, Sweden (facilitator) Uganda and the United States) on the occasion of the Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee, taking into account document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/Inf.4 and possible links with other policy issues;
(b) to request the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance to take up the question of performance targets applicable to preparation and implementation of refrigerant management plans.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48, Decision 27/85, paras. 129 to 131).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/Inf.4).
The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to commend the contact group and its facilitator for the progress made;
(b) to reconstitute the contact group from the members of the new Executive Committee; and
(c) to include refrigerant management plans as an item of the agenda of the Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/70, para. 110).
The Eleventh Meeting of the Parties decided to request the Multilateral Fund Executive Committee to finalize the formulation of guidelines for refrigerant management plans for high volume ozone-depleting-substance-consuming countries as soon as possible and subsequently approve funding in accordance with the guidelines for such projects in the pipeline.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.11/10, Decision XI/27).