2.9 Establish budget principles

Wages shall be fixed in the respective budgets, and their amount may not be decreased while a given budget is in effect.

Four special budgets were established in the state social insurance budget the state pension special budget, the employment special budget, the special budget for accidents at work and special budget of sickness, disability and maternity.

Overall, the funds monitoring tool would be utilized to more accurately formulate budgets and increase budget implementation rates, bringing expenditures more in line with budgets.

(a) From the first year of the first budget period established under Article 3, a calculation of its remaining emission budget for that period

(d) The benefits shall be indexed as determined annually by the Budget Act in accordance with the appropriate calculation of resources.

(d) Identification of measures needed to improve the current budgetary procedures

It is anticipated that by synchronizating two year cycles for the plan, the budget outline and the budget, transparency and accountability will be enhanced.

Approved budgets for 2004 2005 as the budget base

Views were expressed that priorities should be established also for the short term, in the context of the budget outline, to guide the allocation of resources in the programme budget.

He expressed concerns about pre determined budget allocations providing pay for performance and how these would be distributed.

Moreover, the extent of participation of the intergovernmental bodies in formulating programmes related to activities funded from the regular budget of the United Nations should be clearly identified in the programme budget.

Table for offset.

The Organization s budgeting should be so organized as to ensure that all mandates were implemented in full, and hence it was both arbitrary and dangerous to set a predetermined budget ceiling.

The Secretary General had indicated that it would not be advisable to predetermine whether the averaging method or the latest month should be used for budget forecasting and recosting and that such decision should be taken at the time of each recosting.

In connection with its decision to adopt the budget, the Council considered the necessary budget authorizations which might be required by the Rector to ensure the achievement of the objectives and to meet the defined priorities of the University as agreed by the Council.

It is proposed to regularize these exchanges in the next programme budget.

Priorities as determined by the General Assembly are meant to guide the allocation of resources in the budget.

In all budget periods each Annex Party shall be in compliance with its emissions budget, which defines the overall emissions allowed in each budget period, which shall equal the emissions allowed under paragraph 117.2 or 117.3

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

Mission factors are established by the Secretariat prior to the start of a mission in order to secure provisions in the budget, and establishing credible budget estimates for a proposed mission is an important consideration.

Budget estimates were based on the United States dollar euro exchange rate of 1.158 in March 2002.

The Secretariat and the Swiss authorities are in the process of determining a budgetary package covering

33. In the future, the question of the implementation of mandated programmes in the context of the implementation of an approved programme budget should be included in the discussion of the proposed programme budget.

5. The Administration maintained that it would not be advisable to predetermine whether the averaging method or the latest month should be used for budget forecasting and recosting and that such decision should be taken at the time of each recosting.

VIII.68 The Advisory Committee notes that pursuant to General Assembly resolution 58 269, the budget fascicle identifies resources estimated at 36,000 (regular budget) and 5,000 (extrabudgetary) for the conduct of monitoring and evaluation.

After identifying the core and programme support activity clusters, the corresponding budget provisions were calculated by identifying staff requirements, travel and consultancy resources.

Mr. Zhang (China) noted with satisfaction that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004 2005 had been established using the results based budgeting method, thereby providing an effective tool for determining the volume of resources needed to achieve the objectives defined by member States.

The budget for the current biennium was approved with a budget line that specifically covers training.

The budget for programme support activities is established in accordance with available programme resources.

Results based budgeting definitions

Please specify a budget name

For budgetary calculations, it has been assumed that

They shall be prepared in a form consistent with the approved budget.

Under the procedures for the reserve fund, in off budget years the General Assembly would decide on the level of the fund, which would be included in the proposed programme budget for the next biennium.

With regard to the preparation of the budget, budgetary assumptions and budget performance reports (A 51 5, vol. I, paras. 107 123), his delegation believed that the fundamental point was to ensure that Secretariat practices accorded with the basic framework of the United Nations budgetary process as set forth in General Assembly resolution 41 213.

VIII.63 The Advisory Committee notes that pursuant to General Assembly resolution 58 269, the budget fascicle identifies resources estimated at 64,700 (regular budget) and 231,200 (extrabudgetary) for monitoring and evaluation.

(d) Ways of determining the sources for wages, various positions and coefficients for determining starting wages in enterprises being run from the State budget

I should also add that there is in fact no finalized electoral budget.

Identifying programme support activities based on actual requirements would enhance budget transparency.

Management reviews for periodic assessment of peacekeeping missions were another important tool, as was results based budgeting, whose results for the financial period 2003 2004 would allow the Organization to establish a more realistic baseline for the 2005 2006 budget.

(a) Approved budgets for 2004 2005

(a) Status of approved budget

(ii) Related budget decisions

26. Within the framework of the Programme Budget Outline for 1998 1999, target figures were set for all budget sections.