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The
Eighth Meeting of the Parties decided:
1. to note with appreciation the report of the
Executive Committee on the three-year rolling business plan and the report of
the TEAP on replenishment;
2. to adopt a budget for 1997-1999 of
US$ 540,000,000 with the understanding that US$ 74,000,000 of that
sum will be provided by funds unallocated during 1994-1996: this
US$ 74,000,000 figure does not include sums listed as disputed in document
UNEP/OzL.Pro.8/L.2, which appears as Annex VIII to this report;
3. the agreed budget figure includes a sum of
US$ 10 million to enable Parties operating under Article 5 to apply the
measures contained in paragraph 2 of decision VII/8 of the Seventh Meeting
of the Parties and to assist those Parties to start the implementation of any
recommendations that might arise from the Ninth Meeting of the Parties on this
matter;
4. to adopt the scale of contributions for the
Multilateral Fund based on a replenishment of US $466,000,000 as set out
in Annex I to this report of US $155,333,333 for 1997, US $155,333,333
for 1998 and US $155,333,333 for 1999;
5. that the Executive Committee should take
action to ensure as far as possible that the whole of the budget for 1997-1999
is committed by the end of 1999, and that Parties not operating under Article 5
should accordingly make timely payments;
7. to agree that adjustments to the United
Nations scale of assessment should not affect the rates of contributions of
individual Parties during a replenishment period;
8. to agree that contributions of Parties not operating
under Article 5 which ratify the London Amendment during a replenishment cycle
should be calculated on a pro-rata basis for the balance of the replenishment
cycle, starting with the date on which the London Amendment entered into force
for it. Contributions of such countries should be considered as additional
resources during the replenishment cycle; such Parties should be formally added
to the list of contributors and taken into account in the distribution of
assessments during the next replenishment.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.8/12, Decision VIII/4, paras 1-5 and 7-8).
The
Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee noted that the total value of
approved projects and activities in the 1997-1999 triennium was about
US $509 million. Additionally, the value, as submitted, of projects and
activities which it had not been possible to finalize at the Twenty-ninth
Meeting amounted to some US $13 million, potentially increasing the total
expenditure in the triennium to US $522 million. The Executive Committee
decided that, in order to facilitate, as far as possible, committal of the
1997-1999 replenishment, those projects and activities included in that
US $13 million amount should be resubmitted to the Thirtieth Meeting and
counted against the 1999 business plans.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65,
Decision 29/20, para. 46).
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