II. THE BASIS FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND BURDEN SHARING

a At Vienna, resources are financed on a cost shared basis.

The amount assessed on Member States is listed in the annex to the present document, based on the UNIDO scale of assessments for 2004.

Increased consideration should accordingly be given to the imperative need to establish an adequate financial foundation in the form of general funding of an assessed nature, even if based on the short term commitment of as many countries as possible.

1. Decides that the scale of assessments for the period 2001 2003 shall be based on the following elements and criteria

5. Decides that the scale of assessments for the period 2007 2009 shall be based on the following elements and criteria

Contributions to the Fund from developed country parties are agreed on a triennial basis by the Protocol parties, based on a needs assessment, and are shared according to the United Nations Assessments Scale.

Community infrastructure will support, in the form of grants on a cost sharing basis, small scale community infrastructure sub projects to improve the quality of life of the poor.

Nevertheless, the groundwork done by the Committee on Contributions would form a solid technical basis for negotiation, which must result, by the end of the year, in a scale of assessments for the period 1998 2000.

Positive developments are the increase in cost sharing contributions and the widening of the donor base of UNDCP.

The Industrial Development Board recommended to the General Conference the establishment of a scale of assessments for the biennium 1998 1999 based on the scale employed by the United Nations at the time of the seventh session of the General Conference.

38. The principle of capacity to pay must continue to be the basis for determining contributions under the new scale of assessments.

47. Reaffirms the mixed one time and multi year assessment option based on the scale of assessments applicable to the regular budget for 2007, as stipulated in paragraphs 14 to 20 of its resolution 61 251, and decides that there will be no change in the payment schedule for contributions of Member States to the capital master plan

Article 15.2 of the Constitution stipulates that the scale of assessments shall be based to the extent possible on the scale most recently employed by the United Nations.

The increase will also cover the Office's share of centrally provided data processing infrastructure services and support costs.

The increase will also cover the Office's share of centrally provided data processing infrastructure services and support costs.

To produce a scale of assessments that covers 100 per cent of regular budget expenditures of UNIDO, it is necessary to apply a mathematical coefficient to the United Nations rates for UNIDO Member States.

Consensus on the budget and the scale of assessments would help the Organization to establish a viable financial basis.

Financial support of the United Nations should be based on the equitable distribution of its expenses among the Member States in accordance with the principle of capacity to pay.

At present, the maximum earnings to be used as basis for the assessment of contributions amount to DM 1,820 per week or DM 7,800 per month (sect. 175 AFG).

Governments currently finance international organizations through mandatory contributions based on explicit burden sharing rules and arrangements.

Applying the proposed UN UNJSPF cost sharing arrangements, i.e., the one third two thirds formula, to the additional cost of 1,625,200 (which excludes the training cost element, since such costs are borne entirely by the Fund), the one third share of the United Nations additional cost would be 541,800.

Trust Fund to Support the Study of the Scale of Assessments for the Apportionment of the Expenses of the United Nations

Most of them are pretty basic.

Modified classification on a case by case basis

To ensure that the Organization s expenses were equitably apportioned, Japan advocated the use of responsibility to pay as the basis for calculating the scale of assessments, together with the current concept of capacity to pay .

The increase in requirements is primarily related to the departmental share of centrally provided data processing infrastructure support and services costs, partially offset by the decrease under general operating expenses, due to a more appropriate distribution of costs between the regular budget and the support account.

25. A general commitment to burden sharing already exists within the international community, and this underpins all of UNHCR apos s work. However, serious efforts are now being made to learn lessons from past experiences of formal burden sharing arrangements for specific refugee or returnee situations.

Assessed contributions

The sharing of the costs of administering the Fund is governed by articles 4 (a) and 15 of its Regulations.

The principle of the capacity to pay should remain the fundamental criterion for the apportionment of the Organization s expenses.

(a) A proposal based on the methodology used for the scale of assessments for the period 1995 1997

(c) Urges Member States to pay their outstanding assessed contributions as soon as possible to minimize the need to withdraw sums to meet shortfalls in the payment of assessed contributions.

(c) Urges Member States to pay their outstanding assessed contributions as soon as possible to minimize the need to withdraw sums to meet shortfalls in the payment of assessed contributions .

(b) Urged Member States to pay their outstanding assessed contributions as soon as possible to minimize the need to withdraw sums to meet shortfalls in the payment of assessed contributions. IDB.18 Dec.9 APPOINTMENT OF AN EXTERNAL AUDITOR

The project is being implemented in consultation with ECO and has received funding on a cost sharing basis from the Government of the Netherlands and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

The Statute is the basis for the Ministry of Justice's classification system.

(b) Recommended to the General Conference the establishment of a scale of assessments for the regular budget expenditures of UNIDO for the fiscal period 2006 2007, based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 58 1 B, adjusted to the membership of UNIDO on the understanding that new Members shall be assessed for the year in which they become Members on the basis of the United Nations scale of assessments, as applicable to UNIDO

(b) Recommends to the General Conference the establishment of a scale of assessments for the regular budget expenditures of UNIDO for the fiscal period 2006 2007, based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 58 1 B, adjusted to the membership of UNIDO on the understanding that new Members shall be assessed for the year in which they become Members on the basis of the United Nations scale of assessments, as applicable to UNIDO

b Refers to the contributions assessed on Member States in accordance with the scale of assessments for the year 1997.

The scales of assessments for the periods 2001 2003 and 2004 2006 had been based on the average of the results of machine scales using base periods of three and six years.

The household (or family) is the basis to measure the poverty level, whereas this analysis is based on an individual level.

Scale of contributions to the Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Rotterdam Convention for the year 2006

The credit or debit balance shall be allocated in proportion to the respective contributions.

(c) Urged Member States to pay their outstanding assessed contributions as soon as possible to minimize the need to withdraw sums from the Working Capital Fund to meet shortfalls in the payment of assessed contributions.