Nevertheless, this estimate appears to be excessive the Advisory Committee requests the Mission to monitor these costs.

Mr. Kuznetsov (Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions), introducing the related report of the Advisory Committee (A 59 569 Add.4), noted that the request for resources for UNPOS covered both civilian personnel costs and operational costs, including non recurring requirements.

The issue of the full costs of delivering programmes is one of long standing concern to the Advisory Committee.

With regard to operational costs, the Advisory Committee recommended that expenditure for official travel and air transportation should be reduced.

Upon request the Advisory Committee was provided with a detailed breakdown of the costs for each consultancy envisaged, including the area, the number of consultants, the duration, the rate applied and the related travel costs.

The supplementary information provided to the Advisory Committee did not present a breakdown of costs or adequate justification for the different activities envisaged.

The Advisory Committee anticipates a reduction of the support component costs after completion of the construction and transfer to the new headquarters, with emphasis shifting from start up activities and costs to the maintenance of the facilities.

Also requests the Secretary General to make every effort to achieve savings on operational costs taking into account the recommendations of the Advisory Committee

5. Also requests the Secretary General to make every effort to achieve savings in operational costs, taking into account the recommendations of the Advisory Committee

Also requests the Secretary General to make every effort to achieve savings on the operational costs taking into account the recommendations of the Advisory Committee

Her delegation supported the Advisory Committee's conclusions and recommendations on ICT, which was catching up to staff costs as a driver of expenditure in the United Nations.

In any case, the Advisory Committee now understands that even if the construction of the UNDC 5 building were possible, costs related to the security aspects would have been prohibitive.

The Advisory Committee has previously commented on the need to monitor travel costs in view of the improved communications, information technology and videoconferencing facilities, as well as increased delegation of authority.

Expresses its satisfaction to the Secretary General for the support provided to the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti and requests him to ensure the provision of financial resources to cover some operating costs in order to enable the Ad Hoc Advisory Group to function smoothly and optimally

Iran seeks compensation for expenses incurred in treating these additional cases indirect costs such as transportation costs costs incurred by caregivers opportunity costs and costs of future medical care.

The Advisory Committee notes from the report (see A 60 550 Corr.2) that the estimated costs and projected schedules for each evaluated strategy as compared to the approved approach are as follows

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advisory assistance,

Advisory board

Advisory board

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

Norway joined the Advisory Committee in welcoming plans for increased recruitment of national staff for the Mission and also favoured the inclusion in the peacekeeping budgets of costs for the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex combatants.

In this connection, the Advisory Committee recalls paragraph 25 of its report contained in document A 58 759 Add.5, in which it stated its expectation of savings under operational costs for the period 2004 05.

Decides to reduce the overall level of operational costs by 2,340,000 dollars, taking into account the reductions proposed in paragraphs 18 and 21 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions 2

The Advisory Committee notes that the performance report for the 2003 04 period does not provide a transparent breakdown of training related costs and activities, including consultants, travel and utilization of the in mission training centre.

Methodologies used to calculate costs Staff costs Salary and common staff costs The standard costs (in United States dollars) applied in determining staff costs in the proposed budget are based on actual salary costs for the first three months of 2005, and adjusted for step increments in 2006 2007.

Also decides to reduce the overall level of operational costs by 2,340,000 dollars, taking into account the reductions proposed in paragraphs 18 and 21 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions 2

Also decides to reduce the overall level of operational costs by 2,340,000 dollars, taking into account the reductions proposed in paragraphs 18 and 21 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions 2

Operating costs

Operational costs

Administrative costs

Investment costs

Audit costs

Operational costs

Technical Advisory Programme

Legal advisory services

Aware of the heavy burden of air transport costs and the Advisory Committee's recommendation that they should be reduced if possible, her delegation welcomed the plan to use existing air assets, including those of the World Food Programme.

In its related report on the initial estimates (A 59 736 Add.13), the Advisory Committee had drawn attention to a number of its concerns with regard to results based budgeting, organizational and staffing structure and operational costs.

Costs and financing The cost of supplying water consists, to a very large extent, of fixed costs (capital costs and personnel costs) and only to a small extent of variable costs that depend on the amount of water consumed (mainly energy and chemicals).

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The Independent Audit Advisory Committee serves in an expert advisory capacity to the General Assembly.

11. Decides to reduce the overall level of operational costs by 2,340,000 dollars, taking into account the reductions proposed in paragraphs 18 and 21 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions A 60 386.

This amount was inclusive of extrabudgetary costs amounting to 642,400 to be funded by a number of member organizations and comprised 35,671,100 for administrative costs, 43,014,100 for investment costs and 1,443,200 for audit costs.

Non post costs

Travel costs 24.0