Conditions of Service and Compensation for Officials, Other than Secretariat Officials, Serving the General Assembly : Full-Time Members of the International Civil Service Commission and the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions

A/RES/58/266View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 120 Programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003, published in 2004.

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Compensation Cost of Living Indices Financial Implications Personnel Management Professional Staff Salaries and Allowances Working Conditions

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Approves the suggestions outlined in paragraphs 4 to 6 of the report of the Secretary-General,1 due to the increase in the salary scale for staff in certain grades of the Professional and higher categories in accordance with its resolution 57/285 of 20 December 2002, with effect from 1 September 2003;

Decides that the additional financial requirements stemming from the proposals shall be reflected in its resolution on the second performance report for the biennium 2002–2003;

Also decides to maintain the procedure for adjusting the compensation of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the International Civil Service Commission and the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the basis of the movement of the consumer price index;³

³Ibid., para. 2.

Requests the Secretary-General to bring the issue of conditions of service and compensation of the three officials to the attention of the General Assembly when the annual compensation for the Chairman of the International Civil Service Commission and the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions falls below the level of the compensation of Assistant Secretaries-General, but no sooner than at its sixty-third session;

Decides that the procedure outlined above shall replace the requirement for future five-year comprehensive reviews outlined in paragraph 8 of the report of the Secretary-General;

Reaffirms the principle that the conditions of service and compensation of the three officials shall be separate and distinct from those of officials of the United Nations Secretariat.

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