Decision XXXVII/7: Ensuring the viability of Montreal Protocol operations
The Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the Parties,
Recognizing the important role of adequately resourced and supported, efficient and effective Meetings of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, as well as meetings of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and other subsidiary bodies, in supporting the implementation of the Protocol, and that periodic review enables those meetings to be a right fit for present and future challenges,
Decides:
- To request the Ozone Secretariat to prepare a report, for consideration by the Open-‑ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer at its forty-eighth meeting, on the options for making effective and efficient changes, with associated cost estimates, to the timing of, Ozone Secretariat support for and length of the Meetings of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and meetings of the Open-ended Working Group, the Implementation Committee under the Non-Compliance Procedure for the Montreal Protocol and the assessment panels, and the timing of replenishment decisions;
- That the report referred to in paragraph 1 above should be non-prejudicial with respect to the parties’ future consideration of the options presented therein, and should include both the potential benefits and drawbacks of those options.