Scale of Assessments for the Apportionment of the Expenses of the United Nations Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 122Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations, published in 2001.

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Appropriations Holy See Specialized Agencies Statistical Methodology Switzerland Tuvalu United States Yugoslavia

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Decides that the scale of assessments for the period 2001-2003 shall be based on the following elements and criteria:

Estimates of the gross national product;

Average statistical base periods of six and three years;

Conversion rates based on market exchange rates, except where that would cause excessive fluctuations and distortions in the income of some Member States, when price-adjusted rates of exchange or other appropriate conversion rates should be employed, taking due account of General Assembly resolution 46/221 B of 21 December 1991;

The debt-burden approach employed in the scale of assessments for the period 1995-1997;

A low per capita income adjustment of 80 per cent, with the threshold per capita income limit of the average per capita gross national product of all Member States for the statistical base periods;

A minimum assessment rate of 0.001 per cent;

A maximum assessment rate for the least developed countries of 0.01 per cent;

A maximum assessment rate of 22 per cent;

Decides also that the elements of the scale of assessments contained in paragraph 1 above will be fixed until 2006, subject to the provisions of resolution C below, in particular paragraph 2 of that resolution, and without prejudice to rule 160 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly;

Notes that the application of the methodology outlined in paragraph 1 above will lead to a substantial increase in the rate of assessment of some Member States;

Decides to apply transitional measures to address those substantial increases;

Notes that the United States of America has decided to pay to the United Nations in 2001 an amount equal to 3 per cent of the amount assessed on Member States pursuant to General Assembly resolution 55/239 of 23 December 2000;

Decides, as an exceptional measure and notwithstanding the provisions of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, that this amount should be credited against the assessed contributions of the other Member States for the programme budget for 2001, as reflected in annex I to the present resolution;

Resolves that the scale of assessments for the contribution of Member States to the regular budget of the United Nations for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 shall be as contained in annex II to the present resolution;

Resolves also that:

Notwithstanding the terms of financial regulation 5.5, the Secretary-General shall be empowered to accept, at his discretion and after consultation with the Chairman of the Committee on Contributions, a portion of the contributions of Member States for the calendar years 2001, 2002 and 2003 in currencies other than United States dollars;

In accordance with financial regulation 5.9, States which are not Members of the United Nations but which participate in certain of its activities shall be called upon to contribute towards the 2001, 2002 and 2003 expenses of the Organization on the basis of the following rates:

These rates represent the basis for the calculation of the flat annual fees to be charged to non-member States in accordance with General Assembly resolution 44/197 B of 21 December 1989.

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Establishes, as from 1 January 2001, a reduced ceiling of 22 per cent for the assessed contribution of any individual Member State;

Decides to review the position at the end of 2003 and, depending on the status of contributions and arrears, to determine all appropriate measures to remedy the situation, including adjustments of the ceiling in keeping with its resolution 52/215 A to D of 22 December 1997;

Stresses that the reduction of the maximum assessment rate referred to in paragraph 1 of resolution B above shall apply to the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations and should have no automatic implication for the apportionment of the expenses of the specialized agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Takes note of the decision of the Committee on Contributions to consider the system of assessment of non-member States further at its sixty-first session;

Decides that, from 2001, the flat annual fee percentage for the Holy See should be set at 25 per cent of the approved notional rate of assessment.

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Decides that the rate of assessment for Tuvalu, admitted to membership of the United Nations on 5 September 2000, should be 0.001 per cent for the year 2000;

Decides also that the rate of assessment for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, admitted to membership of the United Nations on 1 November 2000, should be 0.026 per cent for the year 2000;

Decides further that the contributions of Tuvalu and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the regular budget and the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994, for the year 2000 should be calculated on the basis of one twelfth of their relevant rates of assessment for the year 2000 per full calendar month of membership;

Decides that Tuvalu should be credited with a corresponding proportion of its non-member State assessment for the year 2000;

Decides also that the contributions of Tuvalu and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the year 2000 should otherwise be applied to the same basis of assessment as for other Member States, except that, in the case of appropriations or apportionments approved by the General Assembly for the financing of peacekeeping operations, the contributions of Tuvalu and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as determined by the group of Member States to which they may be assigned by the Assembly, should be calculated in proportion to the calendar year;

Decides further that the assessments of Tuvalu and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the year 2000 should be taken into account as miscellaneous income in accordance with regulation 5.2 (c) of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations;

Decides that, in accordance with financial regulation 5.8, the advances of Tuvalu and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Working Capital Fund should be calculated by the application of their rates of assessment for the year 2000 to the authorized level of the Fund and should be added to the Fund, pending their incorporation in a 100 per cent scale for the Fund for 2002-2003;

Notes that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia can be said to have a share in the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund, established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 47/217;

Notes also that, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 47/217, the assessment of Tuvalu for the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund should be calculated by the application of its first rate of assessment for peacekeeping operations to the authorized level of the Fund.

F

Decides to continue the review of other matters to be considered at the sixty-first session of the Committee on Contributions during the resumed fifty-fifth session;

Decides also to continue consideration of the proposal for the re-establishment of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Working Group on the Implementation of the Principle of Capacity to Pay during its resumed fifty-fifth session.

Annex I

a 3 per cent additional payment by the United States of America.

Annex II

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