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The
Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) that when preparing projects in countries
where serious delays in implementation were likely to occur, the Implementing
Agencies could raise these issues with the Executive Committee in those cases
where it seemed that the Executive Committee might be able to help remove the
impediment, and should submit projects only when such impediments had been
resolved;
(b) noting that it could be the case that one
agency’s projects in a given country were proceeding smoothly, while another’s
were seriously delayed, an agency not encountering such major delays should
continue to submit projects for that country.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/20/72,
Decision 20/12, para. 23).
The
Twenty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the
Implementing Agencies to provide the Executive Committee at its Twenty-second
Meeting with a list of projects where there had been no significant activity in
the last two years.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/21/36,
Decision 21/28, para. 41).
The
Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) where no disbursement had occurred 18 months
after the date of approval of a project, a full explanation of the reason for
the delay should be submitted by the Implementing Agency to the next meeting of
the Executive Committee for review. Those reports should contain the comments
received from the Article 5 countries and enterprises concerned;
(b) where a project had not been completed 12
months after the proposed completion date in the progress report of the
Implementing Agencies to the Executive Committee, a full explanation of the
reason for the delay should also be submitted by the Implementing Agencies to
the next meeting of the Executive Committee for review. Those reports should
contain the comments received from the Article 5 countries and enterprises
concerned;
(c) to review the reports on a case-by-case basis and
decide upon the action required;
(d) on the basis of the experience gained through
consideration of these reports, to consider the development of guidelines to
ensure that the project preparation process included measures to prevent any
delays in implementation or completion in the future.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/79/Rev.1, Decision 22/61, para. 81).
The
Twenty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee noted the Sub-Committee’s
decision to address, at its next meeting, the following additional reasons for
delays in implementation:
(a) changes in project specification by the
beneficiary;
(b) enterprises refrained from implementing their
projects until their competitors’ projects had been approved or government
regulations had been enacted;
(c) the bidding process resulted in higher costs;
(d) the difficulty of obtaining agreements on the
transfer of technology;
(e) prolonged contract negotiations;
(f) changes in technology;
(g) differences in appraised tonnage;
(h) completion of grant agreements.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/22/79/Rev.1, Decision 22/62, para. 82).
The
Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to encourage the Implementing Agencies to
facilitate, where possible, the transfer of technologies and make greater
efforts to assist in the negotiation of technology transfer agreements between
the supplier and the recipient where those were necessary;
(b) to request the World Bank to continue its
efforts to obtain exemption from taxes for equipment purchased under the
Multilateral Fund and to produce a progress report on the matter in time for
the Sub-Committee’s fourth meeting;
(c) to request the Sub-Committee to maintain a
watching brief on project implementation delays.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68,
Decision 23/4, para. 16).
The
Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) that as projects suffering from serious delays
were relatively few, they could be highlighted on a case-by-case basis at each
meeting, when any appropriate guidance could be provided to the Implementing
Agencies;
(b) to urge the Implementing Agencies to make
greater efforts to overcome existing delays and to take appropriate measures to
avoid such delays in the future; and
(c) to request the Secretariat to analyze specific
types of delay, such as bankruptcy, with the Implementing Agencies and present
a paper on the subject to its next meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47,
Decision 24/7, para. 25).
The
Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that no project
preparation proposals should be put forward by Implementing Agencies if there
were impediments at policy level in the country concerned to active and
expeditious implementation. Furthermore, in cases where counterpart
contributions were needed to ensure implementation, in order to avoid delays in
the projects’ implementation, those counterpart contributions should be known
to the Implementing Agency to be in place before the projects were submitted.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47,
Decision 24/49, para. 77).
The
Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that reports on
projects with implementation delays to be submitted to its Twenty-ninth Meeting
should be based on the Secretariat’s list of projects with implementation
delays, including project preparation and those projects where disbursement had
begun after no disbursement had taken place for a period of 18 months.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/28/57,
Decision 28/8, para. 22).
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