The Fifth Meeting of the Parties decided in Dec. V/23:

1. To authorize the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol to provide funding for a limited number of methyl bromide projects for data collection, information exchange within the scope of country programmes, in line with paragraphs 1 (b) and (c) of decision IV/23 of the Fourth Meeting of the Parties, as well as for a limited number of methyl bromide alternative demonstration projects, which should be selected with the assistance of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel;
2. To request the implementing agencies to cooperate according to their specific expertise to assist in implementing the present decision;
3. To encourage Parties to provide bilateral support for other methyl bromide studies and projects in developing countries (over and above contributions to the Fund).