Roles and Functions of National Ozone Officers

1. Annual South Asia Network Meeting and Thematic workshop of the National Ozone Officer on “HCFC Phase-out and Kigali Amendment 23-26 May 2017 Agra, India Roles and Functions of National Ozone Officers Tshewang Zangmo BHUTAN

2. Outline of Presentation • Executive Committee Decision on the establishment of a National Ozone Unit under the Institutional Strengthening project • Why it is necessary to have a National Ozone Officer? • Roles and functions of the National Ozone Officer • Discussions

3. South Asian Countries • Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, DPR Korea, India, Iran, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, RO Korea, Sri Lanka • Implementing agencies • UNEP • UNDP • UNIDO • World Bank

4. Institutional Strengthening (IS) support to National Ozone Units • The Executive Committee, at its 5th meeting in November 1991, recognized the need to provide funding from the Multilateral Fund (MLF) for institutional strengthening of Article 5 countries • To strenghten a mechanism within the country to facilitate implementaion of projects for effective phase- out of the controlled substances • Emphasizes greater responsibility of governments for national phaseoutprogrammes • Ensure the effective liaison between the country Executive Committee, the Fund Secretariat, and the Implementing Agencies • IS renewed every two years

5. Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee March 2000 Article 5 countries with institutional strengthening projects to ensure that: • National Ozone Unit is given a clear mandate and responsibility • to carry out the day-to-day work in order to prepare, coordinate and, • where relevant, implement the government's activities to meet its commitments under the Montreal Protocol; • this also requires access to decision-makers and enforcement agencies;

6. Principal roles and responsibilities of NOO Position: a sufficientlyhighlevelofficerwiththeoverallresponsibilitesforsupervisingthework of the National Ozone Unit. • Implement, monitor and reportonthe Montreal Protocolcompliance status including: • ODS Phaseoutschedules • Legislation and licensingsystemsforimport and export of ODS (and ODS dependenttechnologies); • Timelysubmission of iPIC, Article 7 data and CP data to MLF and OS; • Prepare workplans and ensure timely implementation of the activities; • Establish a reliable system to collect data , ODS monitor, licensing quota system, and report data on imports and exports of ODS; • Conduct advocacy and awareness programs and prepare advocacy materials; • Work closely with Implementing agencies;

7. Contd.. • Represent country at regional and internationalmeetings of the MP ; • Advises national stakeholders on the MP requirements (this often requires the training and capacity building of other national stakeholders); • National Stakeholder committee ; • Keep abreast with the decisions of the Meetings of the MOP, MLF (Ex. Com.) etc; • Nationalize the decisions arising from the national, regional and international meetings. • Organise Network Meetings/border dialogue or other ozone related meetings; • to continue support for compliance with the Montreal Protocol and to address the challenges related to the phase-out of HCFCs in line with the objectives of decision XIX/6 and the transition to alternatives that minimized environmental impact • Manage the Ratification of amendments to the Montreal Protocol and the implementation of the decision of each Amendment (Kigali Amendment) • linkages with national sustainable development priorities and in particular those of Climate, Energy efficiency and Chemical management

8. Why the need for this special training workshop? • Frequent changes in NOO….. Why??? • Inadequate institutional transfers when changes occur • Project approach versus institutional approach • Skills base of NOOs are varied and the positions of NOOs in the network are non standardized • Need for continued training, re-training, including on new and emerging subjects.

9. Thank You