42nd Meeting - Montreal, March-April 2004

The Executive Committee decided:

(a) To take note of the report on programme support costs of bilateral cooperation projects (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/50);

(b) To note with appreciation the inputs from Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Japan;

(c) To defer further consideration of the programme support costs of bilateral cooperation projects until its 43rd Meeting;

(d) To invite the bilateral agencies to make further submissions giving their views on the matter in order to facilitate discussion at the 43rd Meeting;  and

(e) To include in the provisional agenda of the 43rd Meeting an item entitled “Rights and obligations of bilateral agencies under the Montreal Protocol and its Multilateral Fund”.