Cost structure of the unified budget breakdown

Cost structure of the unified budget, excluding contributions from the United Nations regular budget

The total provision under this budget line is a recurring cost.

Summary of recosting of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007

The working group noted that maintenance costs were budgeted for the projects under study, such as the enterprise resource planning project, that maintenance costs were included for redevelopments (such as the upgrade of the Lawson accounting system) and that maintenance costs consumed a considerable portion of the budget.

One option would be to include the cost of phase II in the regular budget for 2006 2007.

In line with that document, the budgets for the biennium 2004 2005 represent, under the regular budget, a net amount of 144,295,800 and 21,512,370 under the operational budget.

In 2003, the United Nations regular budget met 39.5 per cent of management and administration costs and 13 per cent of programme support costs.

In 2003, the United Nations regular budget met 39.5 per cent of management and administration costs and 13 per cent of programme support costs.

(b) The operational budget is financed mainly from support cost income earned from the implementation of technical cooperation activities financed from voluntary contributions.

(i) Reimbursement for programme support costs is provided for in respect of extrabudgetary technical cooperation activities.

To facilitate comparability with the programme of work and budget proposals of other organizations of the United Nations system, the staff costs are shown net of staff assessment under the various expenditure sections of the programme budget.

Its estimate falls so far short because the reported numbers do not even include the full budgetary costs to the government.

It is based on the assumption that the annual calendar of meetings of Convention bodies will include two sessional periods of two weeks each (one of which would be a COP and COP MOP hosted by a government), and uses standard cost figures employed by UNOG for conference services.

For 2004, a United Nation Regular Budget allotment advice was received for an amount of 27,749,500, covering staff and other management and administration costs, including the posts of the High Commissioner and the Deputy High Commissioner.

117. Notes with concern the lack of detail in the proposed programme budget of unit costs for the replacement or acquisition of information technology related equipment

Accordingly, relevant adjustments are made in all tables in the present report by transferring the posts and a minimum of operational costs to infrastructure and the substantive activities costs to the programme budget.

These budgetary costs (exclusive of interest) amount to 652 billion in our conservative estimate and 799 billion in our moderate estimate.

The cost shared budget estimates for the biennium 2006 2007 have been decreased by 4.4 per cent in overall terms relative to the budget for 2004 2005.

The cost structure of the unified budget (in terms of relative shares of management and administration, programme support and programmes) has remained stable over the past five years.

In addition, the estimates included extrabudgetary costs in the amount of 131,000 for after service health insurance.

The revised budget provides for the deployment of 5,674 additional military contingent personnel and 86 additional civilian police personnel.

The budget also foresees a reduction on non post items, such as travel and General Temporary Assistance, resulting from efforts to streamline our processes.

The Board notes that a 49 per cent ( 4 million) decrease in change management costs is primarily a response to meet the fixed portion of Atlas costs as well as the reimbursement costs of United Nations agencies, which were not budgeted for.

For instance, nine organizations have reported implementing several recommendations in JIU REP 2002 3, on support costs related to extrabudgetary activities.

Staff costs account for 64 per cent of the regular budget, of which 60 per cent represents the cost of area staff and four per cent represents the cost of international staff.

Operational budget income from support cost earned from technical cooperation delivery and other income amounted to 9.3 million in 2004.

The Committee notes that the costs for 2006 2007 are estimated at 26,204,000, comprising United Nations field security costs, malicious act insurance policy and the global access control system, as broken down in table 7 of the budget document.

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

In this regard, the Board of Trustees, at its forty third session, maintained its request to have the rental and maintenance costs, currently covered by the General Fund, borne by the regular budget of the United Nations.

The methodology used to calculate the costs of the conference services contingency is the same as in the 2004 2005 budget proposal.

3. Calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner to keep its support costs, including management and administration, under review with the objective of reducing these as a percentage of total budget expenditure, and welcomes the decision of the Office to initiate a headquarters process review with the aim of simplifying and streamlining administration

As a result, the requirements in euro terms under the Staff costs items in the proposed core budget are higher by 2.5 per cent than the provision in the current budget, corresponding to an increase of 24.4 per cent in United States dollar terms.

But achieving these laudable goals will be expensive, coming on top of the giant budget deficits the US is running to counter the financial crisis.

Since such donor policies do not reduce UNIDO's actual support cost requirements for project delivery, these costs need to be covered, to an increasingly greater extent, by the regular budget.

To approve the proposed move of the secretariat headquarters to the United Nations campus facilities in Bonn, Germany, provided it does not result in additional costs to the core budget of the secretariat

Since he took office in 2001, President George W. Bush has increased America s regular military budget by 30 , again not taking into account the cost of the wars he launched.

It also decided to recommend that the General Assembly make appropriate budgetary provisions to cover such activities in 2006 (see A AC.109 2005 L.14, para.

The final budget reflects increased headquarters costs resulting from the introduction of revised salary scales after the 2004 2005 budget had been formulated and the continued weakness of the dollar against the euro.

The Committee recalls that, during discussions on the budget for the current period, it had been informed that the establishment of a training centre at the Mission would lead to reduced costs for training related travel this goal does not seem to have been attained.

Adjustments to the budget base

Hence, additional requirements were due mainly to the unbudgeted acquisition of hardwall buildings prefabricated units and 12 type B hangars for airfield construction.

In the first quarter of 2005, additional support cost income of 3.8 million and expenditure of 1.9 million further increased the operational budget reserve

French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher.

The Committee notes from the supplementary information provided to it that the expenditure under operational costs as at 31 August 2005 amounted to 20 million, which, if compared with the budget of 135.3 million, may indicate delays in the implementation of projects funded under operational costs.