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The
Forty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the consolidated 2005-2007 business
plan of the Multilateral Fund (including its impact on the funding window as
per decision 44/3 and status of compliance) as contained in document
UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/45/5;
(b) to maintain metered dose inhaler (MDI)
transition strategies in countries with no remaining funding eligibility;
(c) in the light of decision XVI/13 of the
Parties, to establish a funding window amounting to US $15.2 million for
the chiller sector in 2005;
(d) to request the Secretariat to prepare a study,
with input from the Implementing Agencies, on criteria and modalities for
chiller demonstration projects, including how different regional funds for the
chiller sector might come into operation, taking into account proposals
submitted and comments made during the current Meeting, for consideration at
the 46th Meeting, examining issues such as fairness of funding and any limits
on the number or cost of projects to be funded, etc.;
(e) to handle HCFC survey projects in the manner
prescribed in decision 45/6;
(f) to maintain in the business plan any
CTC/TCA/methyl bromide projects for countries with a very low volume of
consumption;
(g) to defer consideration of ODS destruction
projects until the 46th Meeting;
(h) to note that, although planned activities
exceeded the 2005 budget, it was expected that, based on historic performance,
the funds actually approved were likely to be lower than those planned and
therefore within the budget for the 2003-2005 triennium, enabling the Executive
Committee to fulfil the Parties’ directive to fully commit the 2003-2005
budget, pursuant to decision XIV/39 of the Parties;
(i) to note that, in the light of the expected
availability of funds for all projects in the business plans and the fact that
the business plans for 2005 included projects for accelerating phase-out and
maintaining momentum, there was no need for a special funding window for that
purpose; and
(j) to urge bilateral and multilateral
Implementing Agencies to increase their efforts to implement approved projects
to facilitate the 2005 reductions in consumption and production of controlled
substances, bearing in mind that 96,734 ODP tonnes were scheduled to be phased
out in 2005 from approved projects.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/45/55,
Decision 45/4, para. 39).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/45/5/).
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