(b) To achieve cost savings

Savings are anticipated upon their renewal in 2007.

Scale economies in training, procurement and operation and maintenance are key attractions of this approach.

7. Encourages the International Law Commission to continue taking cost saving measures at its future sessions

8. Encourages the International Law Commission to continue taking cost saving measures at its future sessions

It agreed with the Advisory Committee that, in certain areas, further savings might be realized.

As market shares increase, steady progress in lowering costs can be expected to continue through economies of scale.

Add an indicator of achievement (ii) reading (ii) Savings achieved from efficiency measures and renumber the existing indicator of achievement as (i).

7. Encourages the International Law Commission to continue taking cost saving measures at its future sessions without prejudice to the efficiency of its work

Encourages the International Law Commission to continue taking cost saving measures at its future sessions without prejudice to the efficiency of its work

98. Emphasizes that management restructuring should produce clearly defined gains in productivity and or economies

The Committee also makes a number of observations and recommendations with regard to the administration and management of the resources of the support account for peacekeeping operations and areas of possible savings.

First, they can improve value for money (in that better value for money can be achieved through a competitive market price, and substantial cost savings can be realized through dynamic and real time trading).

Enterprise switches are typically found in networks with larger number of switches and connections, where centralized management is a significant savings in administrative time and effort.

The Committee believes that further cooperation should be sought from the Mission to explore possibilities for additional savings, taking into account the relatively limited time for which the equipment will be required.

Moreover, as can be seen from the tables preceding paragraphs 14 and 19, savings are possible from the delayed deployment of civilian police and persistent high vacancy rates for civilian staff.

The Advisory Committee recommended approval of the resources requested for the expanded role of UNPOS, but saw room for possible savings, which should be reflected in the performance report.

However, the Advisory Committee expects that the rigorous review of the Mission's structure and requirements, as called for by the General Assembly and promised by the Secretariat, will lead to streamlining and economies.

8. Takes note of paragraph 524 of the report of the International Law Commission with regard to cost saving measures, and encourages the Commission to continue taking such measures at its future sessions

It was estimated that 17.2 million MWh of electricity was saved.

The Peacekeeping Financing Division undertook fewer mission visits than planned in order to support the establishment of three new peacekeeping missions in the spring of 2004, which also resulted in savings.

The Advisory Committee, in paragraphs 26, 28, 30, 31, 54, 64 and 65 above, has made observations and recommendations that should lead to economies.

The proactive clearance of roads by the mission would enable greater use of ground transport and decrease reliance on air support, resulting in significant cost savings.

For 2002, there were savings of 473,062 kWh for 2003, average energy savings were of the order of 27.6 per cent.

4. Also requests the Secretary General to intensify efforts to enhance efficiency measures that may result in sustainable savings, with a view to augmenting the Development Account, in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 54 15

It would also have been useful to know if any savings had been identified within the secretariat or if any surplus might have been redirected to priorities emanating from UNCTAD XI.

In the process of multilateral trade liberalization, small and vulnerable economies such as Mauritius were faced with many challenges, ranging from natural imbalances to trade disadvantages, such as supply capacity constraints and the inability to achieve economies of scale.

Also, substantial savings can be made by avoiding unnecessary costs such as overpayments to creditors or penalty interests due to poor bookkeeping.

With regard to investments in information technology and training, the Ghanaian delegation, like many others, believed these would result in economies in the long run.

Whenever feasible, OIOS identifies quantifiable savings and recoveries.

It commended the Mission for having achieved savings through the revision of air services contracts.

In paragraphs 8 to 10, 17, 24 to 26, 30, 31, 38 and 39 above, the Advisory Committee has made observations and recommendations which should lead to economies.

It is estimated that participation in SWIFT will yield savings in costs of transactions.

Other economies were doubtless possible in that area and should be discussed.

In the context of the ICT Network, it is important to note that, further to a decision of its governing body (Management Committee), the International Computing Centre is pursuing the following five ICT initiatives common payroll system global messaging system United Nations ICT training ICT services sourcing strategy and information security, disaster recovery and business continuity.

10. Takes note of paragraph 260 of the report of the International Law Commission with regard to the cost saving measures taken by the Commission in organizing its programme of work, and encourages the Commission to continue taking such measures at its future sessions

30. Encourages the Secretary General to extend participation and improve the level of collaboration, coordination and information sharing among the organizations of the United Nations system with respect to procurement activities in order to achieve economies of scale and eliminate duplication of work

Reaffirming its resolution 56 237, whereby it requested the Secretary General to intensify efforts to enhance efficiency measures that might result in sustainable savings, with a view to augmenting the Development Account, in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 54 15,

In fact, any savings realized as the result of high vacancy rates would have been returned to Member States.

The Advisory Committee expects that any such savings as may materialize will be reflected in the performance report.

An amount of 3,277,774 net saving arises from the cancellation of 2002 2003 obligations.

Partnerships enable all concerned, private or public stakeholders, to coordinate their resources and objectives, creating economies of scale by pooling human, financial and technical resources, as in the case of regional or intraregional e tourism promotion.

Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

In that regard, the projected procurement savings were a welcome step in the right direction.

Due to the depreciation of the US United States dollar against the Euro, anticipated actual expenditures required to maintain the current structure of the secretariat are expected to exceed the approved budget.