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Requirements were redeployed from the Fund budget to the programme support cost budget, while maintaining the overall budget level.

The aggregate level of peacekeeping expenditure far outstripped the level of the regular budget.

The United Nations regular budget expenditure should be not taken into account in the calculation of the level of the reserve.

The present report is being issued at the present time to best reflect data availability.

Those measures had reduced estimated cash expenditure in the Agency s regular programme for 1997 from the budgeted level of 312 million to a level of 262 million.

A major part of the budgetary requirements at headquarters is kept at the maintenance level.

There is no change in the overall level of resource requirements under the full budget of the Commission.

The average vacancy rate, which was much higher than during previous bienniums, was caused mostly by the need to meet a predetermined level of budgeting.

Projections are also provided in Section VI of the level of funding that may be made available under the Regular Budget in 1998.

The headquarters and field operation budget is maintained at the level of the initial budget, except for some increases resulting from recosting adjustments.

The net regular budget estimates for the biennium 2006 2007 of 144,892,544 represent a 0.4 per cent increase of resources over that of 2004 2005, when compared using the same cost levels.

The net regular budget estimates for the biennium 2006 2007 of 145,983,000 represent a 1.2 per cent increase of resources over that of 2004 2005, when compared using the same cost levels.

A major part of the budgetary requirements in the field offices is kept at the maintenance level.

a Revised estimates based on HSP GC 20 9.

b Budget estimates based on HSP GC 20 9, with the regular budgetary component maintained at the same level as the 2004 2005 biennium pending approval of the proposed regular budgetary submission by the General Assembly.

Budget requirements for the coming biennium have been calculated in anticipation of the reserve level being maintained at 8.3 per cent of expenditures in both years.

While the Group supported approval of the revised programme and budgets for 2006 2007, it was concerned at the low level of implementation of the 2005 regular budget, particularly in the area of staff costs.

6. Some delegations felt that while the overall budget for official travel was lower than for the previous biennium, the reduction of 53 posts should lead to a lower budget for official travel than that being proposed.

Programme staff levels, expenditures and budgets for the Stockholm Convention Secretariat

The proposed programme budget for 2006 2007 maintains the current level of resources available to the Board.

This funding level of the annual programme budget represents 97 per cent and 94 per cent in 2004 and 2003 respectively.

The operational budget estimates of 19,216,920 represent a reduction of 2,295,450, or 10.7 per cent in real terms, i.e. at 2004 2005 cost levels.

The headquarters and field operation budgets have been maintained at the level of the initial estimates, except for some increases resulting from recosting adjustments.

Provision was made for electricity, water and water delivery by a private contractor at an average monthly total cost of 17,300.

Hospitalization services in Lebanon could only be maintained at the current level through extrabudgetary contributions, without which services would have been seriously curtailed.

Concerning the budget for the two year TAP extension, she noted that it remained at the same level as before with a small increase due to mandatory salary and security costs.

In the light of the level of activities foreseen for 1998 1999 for the field establishment, as indicated in paragraphs 90 94 of document E CN.7 1997 9, the Committee is not convinced that the headquarters budget for 1998 1999 should be maintained, in real terms, at the same level.

The level of resources in the budget for the Development Account was consistent with the budget outline proposals that had been reviewed the previous year and the proposals were fully consistent with General Assembly resolution 59 278.

As a result the need to cross borrow from peacekeeping funds to cover regular budget deficits persists, as the level of funds decline. Annex

Furthermore, it is in the lower social strata that most pregnancies terminate in births.

Approved programme staff levels and budget for 2005 are found in the annex to the present note in Tables 1.1 and 2.1, respectively.

The increase under salary costs is due to the lower than budgeted vacancy rates for the biennium 2004 2005.

B. Volume adjustments The budget for headquarters includes the following volume adjustments with no implications on the approved level of total resources

With a deficit of 62 million in the 1998 budget of 314 million, which follows chronic budget shortfalls since 1993, the Agency s level and standard of service has however continued to decline.

Budgetary levels for peacekeeping operations

The issue here was coherence between the programme budget and the ministerial decisions made at São Paulo. The European Union had from the outset requested that the new elements in the programme budget be identified, along with the corresponding budgetary provisions at the activity level.

Decides to maintain the level of the working capital reserve at 8.3 per cent of the estimated expenditure

7. Decides to maintain the level of the working capital reserve at 8.3 per cent of the estimated expenditure

Although it is difficult to anticipate how high long term interest rates will eventually rise, the large budget deficit and the rising level of the national debt suggest that the real rate will be higher than 2 . A higher rate of expected inflation would also cause the total nominal rate to be greater than 5 .

In addition, volume adjustments are introduced to accommodate additional priority requirements without an impact on overall budget level.

It is true that there are problems with the scales of assessments for both the regular and the peacekeeping budgets.

120. Expresses its deep concern at the decreasing trend in extrabudgetary resources and at its impact on the level of technical cooperation activities

You can have no budgets, no people but still can put your work to the highest possible level.