The Committee was informed that a ratio of approximately one fourth of programme support costs to programme of work costs was appropriate.

10 Advisory Opinion in the Case of Certain Expenses, International Court of Justice Reports 1962, p. 151.

What experience has been acquired concerning, for example, user fees, scaled fees, voucher programmes and other cost recovering mechanisms?

Under investment costs, all proposals other than those for posts were accepted, with the exception of the following

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The calculation of programme support charges is based on the estimated project delivery, whereby the category of execution determines the rate of charges retained by UNDCP.

In accordance with the established practice, the 2006 requirement for UNOTIL would be included in the consolidated budget proposal for 2006.

The proposals of the Secretary Chief Executive Officer relating to administrative costs were accepted in full, with the exception of the following

The notorious advanced fee fraud or 419 scams originating in West Africa are a case in point.

(ii) The appropriation for technical cooperation programmes of the regular budget is administered in accordance with the Financial Regulations of the Organization.

General support costs for the entire secretariat, such as general operating expenses, communications, supplies, materials, office furniture and equipment are charged to this programme rather than being allocated to separate programmes.

The contribution rates vary.

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9. It should be emphasized that, pursuant to financial regulation 5.6, contributions received would still be applied against the oldest outstanding assessments.

Requests the Executive Director to monitor the ratio between the programme and the support budgets to ensure that support costs are not increased to the detriment of expenditure on programmes

87. Reiterates its requests to the Secretary General to ensure a more balanced proportion of staff costs devoted to programme support in comparison with those devoted to the programme of work in all the regional commissions, in particular in the Economic Commission for Africa

List of cases

Country Cases

Total number of cases

Programme support costs (such as communications, office supplies, maintenance) have been grouped under the financial management and administration subprogramme of the RPC programme, rather than being distributed by programme and

There is also an attempt to highlight recent cases those decided in the past two or three years as opposed to older ones.

There were no cases of methyl chloroform consumption which had not been addressed by the Executive Committee through project approvals or by activities in implementing agencies' business plans or the Compliance Assistance Programme.

(i) Staff costs This continues to be subject to the provisions of financial regulations 4.2(b) and 4.2(c)

For example, it was not possible to match salary costs and travel expenditure to the individual staff members concerned.

Food products also seem to be disproportionately represented in the cases described above.

The case descriptions also include a few in which the circumstantial evidence was insufficient.

Hypothetical case

Success story.

Programme and programme support costs

The system prorates the programme support cost percentage in case of erroneous entry, resulting in non reconcilable figures.

A Bills Committee of the Legislative Council will scrutinise the Bill.

If funds were to be provided to computerize the Court s case law and archives, the system would be far more effective still.

Programme support cost Programme support

Having reviewed past cases of individual terminations of locally employed civilians, which showed that payments had been allocated between the United Nations and the United Kingdom based on the same apportionment as the salaries and other benefits had been, the Office of Legal Affairs endorsed the principle of cost sharing of termination payments as reasonable and fair.

92. Mr. Lee (Secretary of the Committee) said that the remaining draft resolution with financial implications concerned the publication of the Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs and the Repertoire of Practice of the Security Council.

In accordance with United Nations practice and as authorized by its governing body, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the Programme charges a programme support rate of up to 13 per cent for programme project execution.

And then the last one will be some examples I've been able to collect, which I think illustrate this at least as best I can, in the world of entertainment.

There were only a few such cases where the need for protection seemed to justify an exception to the rule.

Now looking at a few cases, here's one of the first cases that we had.

And she said, I want to write a case, Euvin a case on a public sector leader that has lessons for the corporate world.

The programme support costs bear that name in order to distinguish them from the programme costs, as shown in table 5, which support staff and operating costs for the implementation of parts of the programme.

( ) Programme support charges

Estimated programme costs

Maintenance of programme at revised 1997 rates

Lack of adequate funding for the existing mechanisms is a case in point.