The Thirty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the report (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/7 and Corr.1), in particular, the general conclusion that the administrative and technical capacities of National Ozone Units had considerably improved through the networks’ impact;
(i) to continue the formulation and refinement of objectives, sub-objectives, related results and indicators for the networks as a whole and for each region which clearly indicated their relationship to Article 5 countries’ obligations under the Montreal Protocol, from a short- and medium-term perspective, and reflected those objectives in its annual work programmes;
(ii) to ensure that follow-up meetings focused on a limited number of priority tasks and issues by combining them whenever possible with complementary meetings and workshops addressing the targeted tasks and issues;
(iii) to hold network meetings back-to-back with, for instance, meetings of environment ministers and senior officials in the regions, in order to raise political awareness concerning ozone issues in the region and to promote policy discussions and regional approaches;
(iv) to encourage and facilitate more intensive contacts and information exchange between different networks. Regional Network Coordinators should also be urged to use the e-mail forum set up for consultation between Regional Network Coordinators when preparing for network meetings;
(v) to identify facilitators to chair or facilitate the discussion on substantive issues at sessions of the meeting. To increase member States’ sense of ownership, such facilitators should be selected from within the network, for example, by electing member State representatives as Chair for one year to assist the Network Manager and Regional Network Coordinator;
(vi) to take the other recommendations in Section VIII of the report into account in its efforts to improve the effectiveness of the networks; and
(vii) to report on the results achieved, in relation to the objectives defined in the work programmes, in its annual progress report.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/3, para. 20).
(Supporting documents: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/7 and 33/7/Corr.1).