(b) To achieve cost savings

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

a Total budget of 17,342,900 less expected cost savings of 1 million.

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 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

a Total budget of 20,799,300 less expected cost savings of 400,000.

(b) The cost savings in the Procurement Division resulting from the combination of management review visits with business seminars in one of the locations.

This may require further relocation of certain functions to more economic cost centres, as well as the aggressive reduction of the cost base.

Other costs, which might represent additional marginal savings, such as office space and electricity, have not been taken into consideration given the preliminary nature of this report.

UNICEF is encouraging its offices to participate in and provide leadership to common services as a way to save administrative costs at the field level.

Recognizing the challenges of introducing competition, the Government has set up regulatory agencies in the communications and energy sectors. South Africa has begun to develop an institutional infrastructure in response to competition and the privatization of various services and utilities.

Lastly, MONUC must administer its operational costs, particularly those relating to official travel, in a more effective manner and make savings wherever possible.

The removal of non strategic weapons would represent significant savings in terms of security and storage costs, constitute a valuable contribution to nuclear disarmament and improve regional and international security.

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.

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

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).

UNODC has provided technical assistance in computer based training and joint drug control policies, which have enhanced the efficiency of standardized drug law enforcement training for the whole region, resulting in cost savings.

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

Savings are anticipated upon their renewal in 2007.

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

Whenever feasible, OIOS identifies quantifiable savings and recoveries.

In terms of overall cost, holding these meetings back to back in a United Nations venue, particularly in Montreal, often results in cost savings compared to holding the meetings independently.

Cuba had to acquire diagnostic kits for the medical entomology laboratories on foreign markets, for example in Asia. The country would have saved 30 per cent of the cost 52,116 if it had bought them on the United States market.

1. Takes note of the results of the monitoring of the costs savings of recent modifications of the two track feature of the pension adjustment system and the intention of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board to continue to monitor those costs savings every two years, on the occasion of the actuarial valuations of the Fund

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

In particular, the E2 Panels found that compensation can be awarded for loss of future earnings and profits that the claimant expected to earn under a contract to the extent that they can be ascertained with reasonable certainty, less any cost savings resulting from the interruption of the contract.

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.

The Afghanistan's New Beginnings Programme has enabled the Government to remove all Afghan Military Forces personnel from the payroll of the Ministry of Defence, resulting in an estimated saving to the national budget of a recurrent cost of over 120 million and effectively dissolving the Afghan Military Forces.

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.

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

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

With regard to the financial arrangements, it will be recalled that in accordance with the practice followed on the occasion of previous multilateral disarmament conferences, and as reflected in the Rules of Procedure, the costs of such conferences, including those pertaining to preparatory meetings, would be shared among the States Parties participating in the conferences, based upon the United Nations scale of assessment pro rated to take into account the number of

Subject to the States Parties' approval of the estimated costs and cost sharing formula, assessment notices will be prepared based on the overall estimated costs and applicable cost sharing formula.

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.

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.

Total cost 133 300

Administrative costs