It is therefore recommended that the costs associated with investment advisers be separated from other operational expenses.

Thus, it is recommended that the following costs, associated with contractual services, be separated from other operational expenses

Ratio of subventions to annual total expenditure

Production or labour costs constitute only a relatively low proportion of their total operational costs.

Expenditures that support activities beyond the five focus areas are projected at 1 per cent of both regular resources and total expenditures.

The average rate of overhead reached more than 11 per cent in 2004

Total 2004 expenditures were 97 per cent of total funds available for the Annual Programme Fund.

One such subsidy is permitting deduction of a fixed percentage of certain expenses from income tax.

Examples include projects concerning commodity trade, competition law and policies, biotrade, assessment of trade in services, commercial diplomacy, FDI statistics, support for investment promotion agencies, international investment agreements, support for trade facilitation policy makers and negotiators, corporate transparency, insurance markets, e commerce and e tourism, assistance on science and technology policies, and EMPRETEC.

The share of Latin America and the Caribbean in regional and country projects also decreased slightly and amounted to 7.6 per cent of total expenditures.

(b) Systematically charging the 13 per cent of programme support costs (overhead) to programmes grants whenever possible.

Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee

Operational and technical programme services

2006 (US dollars) 2,246,809

Operational costs

(j) Operating reserves

By international standards, arms spending in Latina America is low relative to GDP but it is nonetheless excessive relative to the region s needs.

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 21.4 per cent of estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 24.3 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

Designated operational entities

Standards for the accreditation of operational entities

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

The operational situation of the Centre

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 9.5 per cent of estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 13 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

The cost of the field office structure accounts for 13.7 per cent of the estimated programme expenditure, a decrease from the 16.6 per cent reported in 2004 2005.

The first was in the area of operational capacity.

Accreditation and designation of operational entities

Accreditation and designation of operational entities

Table 8

Biennial support budget

Personnel

ILO International Labour Organization

Expenses

The Plan also includes additional investments for community based services to address violence against women, including 3.5 million annually for housing support services and 3 million annually as an operating increase for shelters and counselling services.

By appropriation group, 55 per cent of the expenditure was spent on programme support activities 21 per cent on management and administration and 23 per cent on support to the operational activities of the United Nations system.

The reduction in non post resources relates primarily to decreased provisions for general temporary assistance and office furniture and equipment, partially offset by an increase in general operating expenses for communications and maintenance of equipment in audit offices in Geneva and Nairobi.

The share of Asia and the Pacific in UNCTAD's overall expenditures on regional and country projects decreased from 19.8 per cent in 2003 to 16.3 per cent in 2004, mainly on account of decreased country level expenditures.

According to available data, the participation of health expenditure in 2001 was 8 per cent of GDP, which was approximately KM 205 per capita annually.

This ramification is highlighted by the consistently high domestic absorption (private and public consumption and investment expenditures to GDP ratio) and the allocation switch from investment to consumption.

Programme expenditure

Meetings and consultations

Reimbursements of expenditures

Actual expenditure exceeded budgeted expenditure by 0.5 per cent.

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

In accordance with the statute of UNITAR, the expenses of the training programmes for international cooperation and multilateral diplomacy and their operating costs, as well as other administrative expenses for maintaining normal to day to day operations, including rental and maintenance costs, are covered by the Institute's General Fund.

The estimated operational requirements for the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006 represent an increase of 4,474,900, or 26.2 per cent, as compared with the apportionment for the current period.