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The
Forty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note with appreciation the 2006-2008
business plans on bilateral cooperation submitted by Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, Japan and Sweden, as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/7;
(b) to maintain the network activity for the
Pacific Island Countries included in Australia’s business plan;
(c) to note the fact that the Executive Committee
had committed all but US $35,469 of Germany’s 20 per cent bilateral
contribution for the 2006-2008 triennium through annual tranches of multi-year
agreements due during the current triennium;
(d) in view of the compliance requirements
associated with the TPMPs and another activity required for compliance
identified in Germany’s business plan, to request the Fund Secretariat to
explore with Germany and other agencies the most effective way in which those
activities required for compliance in the 13 African countries concerned could
be expedited within the allocation of available funds;
(e) if, by the 49th Meeting, Germany did not have
sufficient funds available in its 20 per cent allocation for the triennium to
finance projects in its business plans required for compliance with the 2007
and 2010 targets, Germany would consult with the relevant countries and the bilateral
and implementing agencies regarding the transfer of those projects.
Consequently, a decision on the transfer would be made by all the parties
concerned;
(f) to note that the requirements of the present
decision did not adversely affect any existing “in principle approved tranches”
of multi-year agreements and any new activity not related to the 2007 and 2010
compliance needs;
(g) to remove ODS destruction activities from
Germany’s 2006-2008 business plan;
(h) to move ODS destruction activities in Japan’s
business plan from 2006 to 2008, with a cap of US $200,000 to cover such
activities;
(i) to maintain the inclusion in Sweden’s 2006
business plan of an activity related to a network for combating illegal trade.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/45,
Decision 48/5, para. 48)
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/7).
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