(e) Costs of legal assistance and valuations.

The cost estimate includes provision for lubricants, calculated at 10 per cent of total fuel cost.

The cost estimate includes provision for lubricants, calculated at 10 per cent of total fuel cost ( 101,900).

Provision is made for the estimated cost of external audit for the budgeted period.

Provision of 30,000 is made for landing fees and ground handling charges at an estimated monthly cost of 2,500.

The cost estimate provides for a total of 32,850 person days at the rate of 72 per person per day.

(c) Estimates of space activity expenses of the government agencies concerned

The methodology used for the recosting of the budget was considered faulty, leading to large overestimates.

The cost estimate includes related freight charges, calculated at 12 per cent of the total value ( 15,300).

The estimate includes provision for lubricants at 10 per cent of total fuel cost ( 281,700).

The methodology used for the recosting of the budget was considered faulty, leading to large overestimates.

(a) Administrative costs, which include the cost of salaries, related staff costs and operational costs of the Fund secretariat, the fees charged by the Consulting Actuary to the Fund for actuarial valuations and other services, and costs related to meetings of the Committee of Actuaries

It noted that the methodology used for the recosting of the budget was faulty, leading to large overestimates.

It should be noted that cost plans are budgets that reflect approved estimates of field office requirements.

Secondly, the question of costs has been raised, and we should like to have some sort of estimate of what the ultimate cost of these efforts will be.

For 1996, the estimated cost to the regular budget would be 262,820.

Decides to reflect the centrally shared security costs mandated by the United Nations as a separate line in the UNICEF resource plan as described in chapter III of document E ICEF 2006 AB L.1, and approves the amount of 26,204,000 from the regular resources of UNICEF for the purposes of covering such costs

The estimate also includes the cost for oil and lubricants at 10 per cent of the cost of fuel ( 9,800).

The provision of 60,000 was based on the estimated cost of maintenance supplies at 5,000 per month.

The cost is estimated to be 1,552.8 million, reflecting a 503.8 million increase over the initial estimates.

However, the estimated cost of 5,000 for this purpose could be absorbed within the overall estimates.

The cost estimates provided for 88 vehicles for 8 months ( 155,600), 23 vehicles for 12 months ( 61,000), one rented vehicle for 6 months ( 1,300) and lubricants at 10 per cent of the total cost of petrol ( 21,800), adjusted by an off road factor of 10 per cent ( 24,000), for a total of 215,700.

The provision of 1,659,600 was based on the estimated monthly cost of 330 per vehicle for 419 commercial and military pattern vehicles.

Administrative audit costs chargeable to the United Nations regular budget are estimated at 102,400 those relating to the administrative audit of the Fund are budgeted at 204,800 and those to cover the audit of investment operations are also estimated at 204,800 and budgeted under the investment costs of the Fund.

The cost estimates for the period under review were based on an authorized strength of 3,980.

It also provides estimates of the fees for the biennium 1998 1999, in United States dollars.

In the budget estimates, this is reflected in a decrease in temporary assistance costs for this activity and an increase in contractors costs.

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Estimated cost (US )

In respect of the Fund apos s usage of the mainframe, no provisions were included in the United Nations budget proposals, leaving the entire cost of the Fund apos s mainframe computer usage, estimated at 2,966,600, to be met by the Fund.

The estimate is based on recent costs of commercial shipping to various destinations and the estimated volume and quantity of equipment to be repatriated.

It therefore indicated its intention to review the level of the administrative costs (including related audit costs) to be reflected in future actuarial valuations of the Fund.

The programme support cost budget amounts to 3.0 per cent of the estimated project delivery of 110,000,000.

61. It was estimated that up to 38 per cent of the resources of the regular budget were devoted to administration and other non programme costs.

Estimated monthly cost is based on historical consumption patterns in the Inter African Mission to Monitor the Implementation of the Bangui Agreements (MISAB).

For 1996, ICSC estimated the cost reduction for the United Nations to be 1.4 million, of which 931,500 would apply to the regular budget for 1997, the estimated cost reduction for the United Nations regular budget would be 1.9 million out of total budgetary savings of 2.8 million.

The provision of 36,000 was based on the estimated cost of maintenance services of 3,000 per month.

52. The estimate provides for the cost of commercial freight and cartage charges, at an average cost of 7,200 per month, which is based on the prevailing pattern of expenditure during the current financial period.

PRELIMINARY COST ESTIMATES

Estimated conference cost

Estimated programme costs

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As originally estimated, the cost of petrol at 0.262 per litre remained unchanged.

The cost estimate is based on the actual expenditure data from the 1996 97 financial period.

The cost estimate of 110,000 provides for 24 hour security coverage in Zagreb and Vukovar at 20,000 per month.