There are, however, also underachievements of the Protocol. One shortcoming has been the national Ozone Offices' lack of ownership of the ODS phase-out programme. This depends heavily on implementing agencies and their consultants, a problem that started with the preparation of Country Programmes and was accentuated by the procedures of United Nations meetings and the language of United Nations documents. Resources made available for supporting an administrative unit within government were seen as the beginning and end of capacity-building. Very little effort was made to train Ozone Officers and their high turnover was ignored.
Credibility suffers The process of project review has gone through a difficult period.
There is a feeling that reductions in project budgets have often been arbitrary. It is a poor defence that these were agreed by the country and the concerned implementing agency. Enterprises are subject to market dynamics and often find that, having submitted a project, they have no option but to accept whatever is given. The credibility of the system has suffered. The question needs more thorough study, but there was inequity from the start.