For reasons outlined below, it appears appropriate to limit the approval by the Commission to the biennial budget, including core and programme support activities.

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Finally, the need to separate project activities from budget approval becomes apparent for practical reasons.

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.

Because of that technicality, to have unencumbered balances flow back into the regular budget would be problematic.

For both methodological and budgetary reasons, priority should be given to work that had already been started.

Since expenses in this budget line are incurred mostly in euros, the overexpenditure is largely due to the exchange rate fluctuations.

11. Variances in the implementation of the budget were attributable mainly to the following factors

The office is expected to commence operations next year with a staff of only three, for budgetary reasons.

No provision has been made for staff assessment, since the budget is on a net basis.

Unbudgeted requirements of 30,000 resulted from the same reason indicated in the preceding paragraph at a cost of 10,000 per helicopter.

An analysis of the overall revised programme budget for 1998 1999 is shown in table 3A, which replaces table 3 of the original budget.

Since the revised budget was only modified for costing assumptions, estimated expenditure could differ considerably from the revised budget.

b For mathematical reasons, vacancy rates for the period beginning October 1996 cannot be calculated against an authorized staffing of 0. Annex V

The budget of the Office of the President is not enough, for three main reasons

The postponements and terminations were largely the result of programmatic reasons and shortage in extrabudgetary funding, and in accordance with General Assembly resolution 50 214.

Further savings were attributable to the fact that the actual cost of rations averaged 5.53 per person, which was less than the budgeted amount of 6.00.

As the projected life expectancy for women is considerably higher than that of men, the principle of gender solidarity is applied and calculations use the average projected life expectancy for men and women.

Overall, for programmatic reasons and owing to the shortage in extrabudgetary funding, 27 of ITC s programmed outputs were postponed and 24 terminated, i.e., 50 per cent of the initially programmed outputs.

Since no adjustments for expenditure experience enter into the growth calculation, it is possible to compare the initial budget assumptions of the preceding biennium with the forthcoming period.

Volume adjustments include major departures from the approved programme of work, including their programmatic and budgetary implications, as well as major budgetary changes resulting from efficiency measures.

The Advisory Committee enquired as to the reason for moving three regular budget posts (1 D 1 and 2 Local level) from the programme of work to the support budget under the Office of the Executive Director.

17. The revised estimates of income and expenditure are shown in table 2A, below which replaces table 2 of the original budget.

Operating costs incurred were at a level of 72 per cent of the originally proposed expenditure budget, partly due to deferred expenditure, but also for cost savings under certain budget items, such as printing.

The decision could not be justified on the basis of budget savings either, given the minuscule budget of the Buenos Aires office.

The present report contains the revised budget for UNMOT, which amounts to 19,887,800 gross ( 18,954,000 net) for the same period, representing a 150 per cent increase, in gross terms, to the original budget as a result of the expansion of the Mission.

The net saving of 317,900 was attributable primarily to higher than budgeted vacancy rates and the incumbency of posts at lower than budgeted levels in the Office of Human Resources Management and the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts.

Reissued for technical reasons.

Removed for technical reasons

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

the original budget appropriations

Table for offset.

Other factors underlying the budget proposals

The Committee expressed concern that extrabudgetary resources were used to supplement activities that should be funded by the regular budget.

The Committee expressed concerns that extrabudgetary resources were used to supplement activities that should be funded by the regular budget.

The figures in the annex suggest that the main reasons for the postponements were programmatic and shortages of anticipated extrabudgetary resources.

Furthermore, since the WIPO budget and virtually all expenses are denominated in Swiss francs, currency fluctuation savings and lower than budgeted inflation are transferred at the end of the biennium to the reserve funds, while any over expenditure is absorbed within the regular budget.

Thus, the total health budget would probably be closer to 4 per cent of the national budget of 400 billion pesos.

The equipment is required because of the projected increase in telephone communications within and outside the Mission area.

The decrease in common staff costs is also partly due to the realized costs, which are lower than the budgeted rate.

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The economy is not competitive and it is hampered by a lack of skilled human resources and high production costs, due primarily to the inflationary budget deficits.

The reference to the regular budget should be retained, since the funds originated from the regular budget.

As such a sharp decline of the United States dollar could not be anticipated by the Tribunal when preparing the budget estimates for 2003, the weakening of the United States dollar led to unforeseeable overexpenditures in certain budget lines.

The current financial plan forecasts a 6 per cent increase in the support budget in 2005, largely due to security related allocations but also to account for increased programmatic support.