Following a discussion the Board decided that:

(a) For project proposals to be considered by the Project and Programme Review Committee (PPRC) they would have to be submitted to the secretariat for technical review nine weeks before the meeting of the PPRC at which the project proposals would be considered;

(b) The PPRC would only consider those projects that had received a technical review by the secretariat, and which had then been circulated to the members of the PPRC at least seven days before a meeting of the PPRC; and

(c) Projects being submitted for consideration to the fourth meeting of the PPRC must be submitted to the secretariat for technical review no later than 12 January 2011.