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The Forty-seventh Meeting of the
Executive Committee decided:
(a) to
request the Secretariat:
(i) to organize a meeting of experts in Montreal,
Canada, from 22 to 24 February 2006 to assess the extent of current and future
requirements for the collection and disposition (emissions, export, reclamation
and destruction) of non-reusable and unwanted ODS in Article 5 countries;
(ii) to recruit consultants to collect and
elaborate as many data as possible on unwanted, recoverable, reclaimable, non-reusable
and virgin ODS in Article 5 countries for dissemination to participants in the
meeting of experts;
(iii) to develop, in cooperation with the
consultants, a standard format for reporting data on unwanted, recoverable,
reclaimable, non-reusable and virgin stockpiled ODS;
(b) to
request implementing agencies, Executive Committee members (on a voluntary
basis for existing data) and National Ozone Units (on a voluntary basis for
existing or additional new data) to provide data and related information to the
Secretariat, by 15 February 2006, to constitute an initial sample reflecting
situations in both Article 5 and non-Article 5 countries;
(c) to
request the Chair of the Executive Committee, through the Meeting of the
Parties, to seek the assistance of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel
(TEAP) and its technical options committees in providing the data mentioned
above;
(d) to
note, with appreciation, the offer of UNEP to provide data from the regional
networks and ODS recovery and disposal workshops conducted by Japan, as well as
information on Article 5 experts;
(e) to
agree to consider further, at its 48th Meeting, the proposed terms of reference
requested in decision 46/36 contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/47/56 in
light of the outcome of the meeting of experts and any written comments
submitted; and
(f) to allocate a separate
budget line of US $50,000 for the meeting, to cover the costs of experts’
fees, travel and daily subsistence allowance, the travel and daily subsistence
allowances of participating Article 5 countries and miscellaneous expenses,
noting that costs of the consultant would be covered under the Secretariat’s
budget, with the understanding that there would be a balance between Article 5
and non-Article 5 Executive Committee members attending the meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/47/61,
Decision 47/52, para. 199).
The Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties decided
to request the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and its technical
options committees to submit to the Multilateral Fund secretariat available
data to enable the Multilateral Fund secretariat to assess the extent of
current and future requirements for the collection and disposition (emissions,
export, reclamation and destruction) of non reusable and unwanted ozone-depleting
substances in Article 5 Parties in pursuance of decision 47/52.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.17/11,
Decision XVII/18).
The Forty-eighth Meeting of the
Executive Committee decided:
(a) to
note, with appreciation the report of the meeting of experts, and to thank all
experts as well as consultants and the Secretariat for their work leading to
that report; and
(b) to request the Secretariat to
forward the report to the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP),
through the Ozone Secretariat, as an input for consideration by TEAP when
complying with decision XVII/17 of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties,
which requested TEAP to prepare terms of reference for the conduct of case
studies in Article 5 countries on the technology and costs associated with a process
for the replacement of CFC containing refrigeration and air conditioning
equipment.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/45, Decision
48/37, para. 161).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/48/42).
The Forty-ninth Meeting of the
Executive Committee decided:
(a) to take note with appreciation of document
UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/49/42, which included the proposed terms of reference for a
study regarding collection, recovery, recycling, reclamation, transportation
and destruction of unwanted ozone-depleting substances;
(b) to inform the Parties, through a letter from the Chair of the
Executive Committee to the Ozone Secretariat, that:
(i) the Executive Committee was discussing the
above-mentioned terms of reference and was of the view that there were
substantial commonalities between those terms of reference and those being
considered by the Parties in relation to decision XVII/17 of the Seventeenth
Meeting of the Parties;
(ii) the issues raised by both sets of the
above-mentioned terms of reference could be considered by the Executive
Committee of the Multilateral Fund, given that it had already held substantial
discussions and initiated some work with respect to studying the issue of
collection, recovery, recycling, reclamation, transportation and destruction of
unwanted ozone-depleting substances;
(iii) a request could be addressed to the Executive
Committee to develop consolidated terms of reference and if agreed by the
Executive Committee to initiate a study based on the consolidated terms of
reference, and to report to the Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties on the
progress made in that respect; and
(c) to consider the issue
at the 50th Meeting of the Executive Committee, in light of any guidance
provided by the Eighteenth Meeting of the Parties.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/49/43, Decision
49/36, para. 153).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/49/42).
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