Finance Budget Clerk (Travel Claims Unit) (GS 4)

In addition, the distribution of the travel budget appeared to lack balance.

The Committee reiterates its view that, given the high cost of travel in the region, with each trip budgeted at a minimum of 2,000, efforts to limit travel should be pursued vigorously.

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.

Visas, travel and hotel reservations

Programme delivery will be facilitated by these improvements as it will reduce lead time in making travel arrangements and ensure the optimum use of travel budgets.

He contemplated taking a trip to Paris.

(a) Lower than budgeted expenditure for official travel and training

We are traveling on a tight budget.

The Committee had expected, for example, that an explanation would be provided as to why the staff of the liaison offices of UNTAES had to travel in the absence of necessary budgetary allocations, who authorized their travel, what measures had been taken by the administration to contain travel expenses and why budgetary provisions had not been requested, as appropriate.

The budgeted amount of 93,800 provides for a monthly average of 2 trips between Headquarters in New York and the mission area ( 60,000) and procurement travel ( 20,000).

(3) The budget does not provide any money for official travel of the President around the world (see section IV).

These savings were partially offset by a higher cost per trip ( 1,700) than budgeted ( 1,500).

In that connection, travel will be undertaken as appropriate by the Expert and his staff under the provisions of the travel budget of the Office for the biennium and as necessary from voluntary contributions.

41. The 1998 1999 budget presented by the Minister of Finance of Bermuda, which envisages support for the new Bermuda Tourist Authority as a public private sector partnership to address major problems in Bermuda s most important and labour intensive tourism industry, is reported to be proceeding, with funds allocated to the Bermuda Government s Ministry of Tourism to be used to support it.

In the presentation, the forthcoming budget is compared with the preceding budget.

The budgeted amount of 60,000 provided for two trips each month between New York and the mission area ( 39,600), local travel ( 12,000) and one trip by internal auditors ( 8,400).

(c) Conference services, administration, oversight (regular budget extrabudgetary)

(12) National Budget Office Report on 1995 Budget Implementation.

As indicated in paragraph 28E.15 of the budget, the increase of 5,300 relates to travel of the Director of the Division of Administration to Headquarters for consultations on policy matters.

In paragraph 101 of its report, the Board recommended that UNU (a) enforce compliance with the directives on recovery of travel advances of staff members and (b) formulate a policy governing the granting and settlement of travel advances of non staff members.

The Budget Officer will assist the Chief Finance Officer in preparing budgets and monitoring the performance of the budget of the Mission.

It is envisaged that travel of its members will be funded from the core budget.

The budget estimates included provision for the emplacement travel of 43 civilian police at an average of 3,000 per trip.

Administrative and budgetary matters proposed budget for the biennium 2008 2009.

The budgetary implications for OIOS were 466,600, including 235,000 for consultants and 231,600 for official travel.

BUDGET ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT

Current budget concept

As a result of the lower than anticipated trial activity during the biennium 2004 2005, the number of witnesses and accompanying dependants expected to travel during the biennium is lower than that used in arriving at the 2004 2005 budget estimates.

It was expected that Guangzhou Shenzhen Hong Kong Express Rail Link would serve 0.3 million passengers (including 0.055 million passengers passing by Hong Kong) on October 1, and 137 pairs of passenger trains would be put into operation (including 83 pairs of passenger trains passing by Hong Kong) it was expected that Harbin Jiamusi Railway would serve 0.028 million passengers, and 30 passenger trains would be put into operation.

(c) Administrative support and finance services (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

(b) Conference services, administration and oversight (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

253. Medical care is financed from the central budget and from gmina budgets.

14. Decides that the President of the General Assembly, consistent with the approved programme budget, should have full authority to use the funds provided in the budget for the Office, including hospitality and travel and any other requirements for the accomplishment of the official responsibilities

The Committee notes from supplementary information that a provision of 178,700 is made for travel of headquarters staff to Haiti and 660,100 is budgeted for the travel of Mission staff.

28B.16 Responsibility for programme planning and budgeting rests with the Programme Planning and Budget Division.

What places are you planning to visit in your travels? And how? And why?

An amount of 5,900 is provided in the budget for the repatriation of 30 troops within Europe.

Regular budget Extrabudgetary Headquarters (74 per cent)

of the United Nations peacekeeping operations

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY MATTERS

The Executive Board will also have before it the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the UNFPA estimates for the biennial support budget for 2006 2007.

8. Approves the budgetary recommendations of the Advisory Committee 3

In that connection, travel will be undertaken as appropriate by the Expert and his staff under the provisions of the travel budget of the Office for the biennium and as may be necessary from voluntary contributions.

They were really going to go, they were actually going to go.