Why is burden sharing necessary?

26. Why is burden sharing necessary?

5. Emphasizes the need for future scales of assessments to reflect the principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay

Appeals by Members for a change of assessments

Assessed contributions

Assessed contributions received (see para. 16 of the main report)

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

2. Welcomes the agreed inter agency cost sharing arrangement, and requests that the apportionment of expenses be updated in 2003

There were dozens of contributors, most of them developing countries, which, under the existing scale methodology, were assessed a higher proportion of their per capita income than the largest contributor.

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

(h) Assessed contributions.

(on the scale of assessments)

PENNY ARCADE

Assessed contributions systems, for example, could recast the way in which the components of the assessed budget are defined, with adjustments to the particular needs of individual organizations.

At that time, any adjustments in contributions by the participants sharing the costs will be determined accordingly.

The coefficient is not applied to (i) Member States with assessment rates of 0.001 per cent (ii) LDCs whose rate may exceed 0.01 per cent and (iii) Member State with maximum assessment rate of 22 per cent.

(b) Assessment of the amount in paragraph (a) above at a monthly rate of 2,814,508.

Note by the Secretariat

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A. Scale of assessments

5. Emphasizes the need to seek to preserve the integrity of the scale of assessments

6. The current debate on the scale of assessments had been precipitated by the financial crisis created by the non payment of assessed contributions by some Member States, especially one of the principal contributors.

69. As regards the maximum rate of assessment, the Committee noted that, in approving the scale of assessments for the period 1998 2000, the General Assembly had included a maximum assessment rate of 25 per cent.

b Through cost sharing.

Royalties benefit sharing

Approves the programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007, amounting to USD 53,501,583 (EUR 40,286,693) for the purposes specified in table 1 below

Regarding quot WHAT needs and responsibilities international solidarity and burden sharing meet? quot

(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

Contributions assessed on Member States in accordance with the scale of assessments applicable to peacekeeping operations for the year 1999

(a) A minimum assessment rate of 0.001 per cent

(c) A maximum assessment rate of 22 per cent.

(f) A minimum assessment rate of 0.001 per cent

(g) A ceiling rate of 25 per cent

(on the scale of assessments and

General resources 29.51

Total 279 356 (b) Assessed contributions unpaid

Assessed contributions of 1,324,078 were received in advance from Member States in 2004 to be applied against the 2005 assessment.

Contributions assessed on Member States in accordance with the scale of assessments applicable to peacekeeping operations for the year 1998

Contributions to be assessed on Member States in accordance with the scale of assessments applicable to peacekeeping operations for the year 1999

Major Programme I, finally, includes only one programme related to UNIDO's contribution to shared services and other indirect costs.

(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.

It continued to be characterized by serious delays in the payment of assessed contributions, their partial payment or even non payment.

(on the scale of assessments, the pattern of