43rd Meeting - Geneva, 5-9 July 2004

The Executive Committee decided:

(a) To note UNDP’s progress report contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/12;

(b) To monitor the following projects by means of an additional status report to the 44th Meeting in the context of projects with implementation delays and to note their slow progress:
(i) Halon bank in the Dominican Republic (DOM/HAL/38/TAS/32);
(ii) Halon bank in Egypt (EGT/HAL/32/TAS/81); 
(iii) Halon bank in Mexico (MEX/HAL/35/TAS/104); 
(iv) Monitoring project for the refrigerant management plan in Mali (MLI/REF/32/TAS/10);
(v) Monitoring project for the refrigerant management plan in Nepal (NEP/REF/28/TAS/07);
(vi) Refrigerant management plan in Viet Nam (VIE/REF/35/TAS/38 and 39);
(vii) Phasing out of CFC-11 in the manufacture of flexible slabstock foam by conversion to methylene chloride at Harmony Foam Nigeria Ltd in Nigeria (NIR/FOA/34/INV/89);
(viii) Phasing out of CFC-11 in the manufacture of rigid polyurethane foam by conversion to a combination of water and HCFC-141b based systems at Global Plastic Industries Ltd in Nigeria (NIR/FOA/34/INV/91); and
(ix) Conversion from CFC-11 to HCFC-141b and from CFC-12 to HFC-134a technology in the manufacture of commercial refrigeration equipment at Al-Saad Refrigeration in the Syrian Arab Republic (SYR/REF/35/INV/81);

(c) To note that UNDP would report to the 44th Meeting on up to 42 projects with implementation delays, including 18 projects that had been so classified in 2003;

(d) Also to note that UNDP had 229 projects that it had classified as completed for over one year with remaining balances totalling US $3,680,970 as of July 2004; and

(e) To reaffirm decision 17/22 in the light of apparent project overruns included in UNDP’s 2003 progress report and to agree that funds returned in error might be returned to the implementing agency in line with previous practices.