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The
Twenty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to request the Secretariat to convene a
meeting of Implementing Agencies and interested bilateral donors, with the
participation of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee and some
interested non-governmental organizations, for the purpose of developing a
strategy and guidelines for investment projects in the methyl bromide sector;
(b) that, as guidelines for these already existed,
demonstration projects should go ahead.
(c) to urge the Implementing Agencies to make
every effort to present well-considered investment projects in the methyl
bromide sector during 1998 and based on the developments under point (a) above.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/23/68,
Decision 23/44, para. 72).
The
Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to approve the
strategy and guidelines for the methyl bromide sector as appeared in document
UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47 Annex IV).
NOTE:
These guidelines have been supersede by the revised guidelines in Annex IX.15.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/47, Decision 24/12, para. 33).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/24/18).
The
Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to set up a working group, composed of
Algeria, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy and the United States of America, to
revise the existing guidelines for projects in the methyl bromide sector;
(b) to request the Secretariat to prepare a
document, incorporating information provided by experts in the field and by
members of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee, as well as findings
from any of the Implementing Agencies’ demonstration projects, for study by the
working group and for submission to the Executive Committee at its
Twenty-eighth Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/27/48,
Decision 27/86, para. 132).
The
Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to commend the working group and its
facilitator on the progress made;
(b) to reconstitute the working group from members
of the new Executive Committee to conclude the work on the guidelines for the
methyl bromide sector;
(c) to include the subject of the revision of the
guidelines for the methyl bromide sector in the agenda for the next meeting of
the Executive Committee;
(d) to request the Secretariat, in conjunction
with the relevant Implementing Agencies, to develop draft project templates for
cost categories for specific priority applications; and
(e) to continue using the existing guidelines
until the new guidelines had been completed.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65,
Decision 29/68, para. 101).
The
Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to re-establish the
Working Group on Revision of the Guidelines for Methyl Bromide Projects,
composed of Australia, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Germany, India,
Netherlands, Tunisia, Uganda (convener) and the United States of America.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41,
Decision 30/3, para. 10).
The
Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee noting the efforts and
recommendations of the working group, decided to adopt the revised guidelines
for methyl bromide projects (Annex IX.15).
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44,
Decision 32/80, para. 100).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/40 and Corr.1).
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