The Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol endorsed the 2002 Business Plan of UNEP, which included the Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP). The new Programme, approved by the Executive Committee and designed to speed up project implementation by DTIE and the quality of services provided to developing countries to support compliance with the Montreal Protocol, is the new core of the UNEP DTIE OzonAction Programme.

The new Compliance Assistance Programme is a team of UNEP staff located in UNEP's regional offices and DTIE Paris. They deliver compliance assistance directly to countries on the ground and work closely with countries on an on-going basis. The CAP team in each regional office assists countries in each respective region to prioritize their needs and project proposals through their direct interaction with the Ozone Officers through the Regional Networks of ODS Officers and other regular communication. Strengthening of the regional offices in this way helps deliver more projects and services to developing countries.

Some of CAP’s planned activities of the phase-out plan for the Multilateral Fund include:

• Providing direct technical and policy assistance to countries through the Compliance Assistance Programme to enable and sustain compliance throughout the triennium.
• Assisting Low-Volume ODS-Consuming countries (LVCs). UNEP expects to remain the agency providing the largest amount of assistance to this category of countries throughout the triennium. This assistance will include Institutional Strengthening, Country Programme (CP) and RMP update, RMP implementation and other non-investment support.
• Supporting development of Refrigerant Management Plans (RMPs), RMP updates, and training related to RMP implementation. For most of the LVCs, the refrigeration sector is the largest ODS consumption sector, and the successful implementation of these RMP activities will largely determine whether or not the countries meet the CFC compliance targets. Accordingly, RMP activities will be essential in the 2003-2005 period

The overall vision of UNEP’s Business Plan during this triennium is to:

• Enable countries to achieve and sustain compliance with the control measures of the Montreal Protocol through technical and policy assistance.
• Promote a greater sense of country “ownership” by helping countries integrate the CPs and ODS phase-out strategies into their country’s national environmental plans or strategies.
• Support performance-based national and sectoral phase-out plans through policy and legislation development and enforcement, particularly for LVCs.

In the first year of this triennium, UNEP’s priorities are to:

• Assist Article 5 countries that are in actual or potential non-compliance;
• Enable Article 5 countries to meet the 2005 control measures for CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride (CTC), trichloroethane (TCA), and methyl bromide, and the 2007 control measure for CFCs through technical and policy assistance;
• Develop and implement programme to ensure that those countries that report zero consumption of methyl bromide, CTC, TCA and halons sustain such levels of consumption;
• Provide assistance to LVCs through implementation of RMPs
• Expedite implementation of already-approved UNEP projects
• Sustain the phase out already achieved in Article 5 countries through the provision of advisory services, training, support for public awareness, and the provision of a clearinghouse function.