Business plans for the year 2001 of UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO and the World Bank

The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to note the draft business plan of UNDP for the year 2001 (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/13);

(c)  to request UNDP to submit a final business plan taking into account the requested modifications to the Thirty-third Meeting.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/10, para. 21 (a, c)).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/13).

The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to ensure that, after taking into account the non-investment activities planned by the other Implementing Agencies, the addition of UNEP’s planned activities for 2001 did not exceed the resource allocation for non-investment projects;

(b)  to remove the project “SME conversion manual” (US $180,000) from the business plan and ensure that the proposed “Study on development of ODS phase-out strategy for SMEs” would review and provide information on the manner in which different countries have phased out ODS from SMEs in different sectors, noting the importance of avoiding any duplication of UNEP’s existing project, “Training modules on management of ODS phase-out in SMEs”;

(c)  to rationalize its proposed “Regional compliance workshops” and “Harmonized subregional ODS legislative and regulatory import mechanisms” in the light of the capacity to address these issues created through existing regional network and institutional strengthening projects;

(d)  to include the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the list of interregional trade organizations it intends to use to carry out its subregional projects to improve monitoring and control of ODS consumption in the 2001 business plan;

(e)  to ensure that methyl bromide activities in countries that have not signed the Copenhagen Amendment are for non-investment projects only;

(f)  to extend the full services of the existing African regional networks to all Portuguese-speaking African countries;

(g)  to coordinate activities with the other Implementing Agencies in Yemen, taking into account that the refrigeration management plan should contain a full strategy for the refrigeration servicing sector, in order to avoid any overlaps;

(h)  to submit a final business plan taking into account the requested modifications to the Thirty-third Meeting.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/11, para. 22).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/14).

The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to note the draft business plan of UNIDO (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/15);

(b)  to request UNIDO to examine the need to assist Yugoslavia in achieving a freeze on halon consumption, which currently does not display a high probability of success;

(c)  to request UNIDO to submit a final business plan taking into account the requested modifications to the Thirty-third Meeting.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/12, para. 23).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/15).

The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to note the draft business plan of the World Bank (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/16);

(b)  to request the World Bank to examine the possibility of assisting countries which do not display a high potential of achieving a halon freeze to do so;

(c)  to note, with regard to the proposed national CFC phase-out plan for the Philippines, that a Swedish bilateral project approved at the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee covers the phase-out strategy for the refrigeration servicing sector, the largest remaining sector, and that the outputs of the two projects, once approved by the Government, will have to be submitted jointly by the two agencies to the Executive Committee;

(d)  to request the World Bank to submit a final business plan taking into account the requested modifications to the Thirty-third Meeting.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/13, para. 24).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/16).

The Thirty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the 2001 business plan of UNDP in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/10, noting that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels;

(b)  to approve the following performance indicators:

Investment Project Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees, but not over-programming.

Non-Investment Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/6, para. 23).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/10).

The Thirty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the 2001 business plan of UNEP in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/11;

(b)  to note that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels;

(c)  to approve the following performance indicators:

Non-Investment Performance Indicators

UNEP-Specific Non-Investment Performance Indicators

(d)  to request the Secretariat to prepare a policy paper on the issue of whether or not there should be contingency lists for non-investment projects to be submitted to the Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/7, para. 24).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/12).

The Thirty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the 2001 business plan of UNIDO in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/12, noting that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels;

(b)  to approve the following performance indicators:

Investment Project Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees but not over-programming

Non-Investment Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/8, para. 25).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/12).

The Thirty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the 2001 business plan of the World Bank in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/13, noting that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels;

(b)  to approve the following performance indicators:

Investment project performance indicators

*Including agency fees, but not over-programming

Non-investment performance indicators

*Including agency fees

(c)  also to note that the World Bank was moving its process agent activities in China from its 2001 business plan to its 2002 business plan;

(d)  to note further that, when the Executive Committee had approved the value of the CFC production project in Argentina for the World Bank’s 2001 business plan, the Bank would adjust its business plan activities by removing projects in the following order of priority:

      (i)   accelerated phase-out in those countries that are willing to do so;

      (ii)  maintaining momentum;

      (iii) production sector phase-out;

      (iv) ensuring compliance by all Article 5 countries.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/32, Decision 33/9, para. 26).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/33/13).