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Programme Budget for the Biennium 2006-2007 Resolutions

A/RES/60/247A-CNo PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 124Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, published in 2006.

What else is in this group?

109 documents · 1974–2020
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2020).
  • 2020A/RES/74/250 A-BProgramme budget for the biennium 2018-2019 resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 2019A/RES/73/280 A-CProgramme budget for the biennium 2018-2019 resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 2018A/RES/72/263 A-CProgramme budget for the biennium 2018-2019 resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 2018A/RES/72/253 A-BProgramme budget for the biennium 2016-2017 resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 2017A/RES/71/273 A-CProgramme budget for the biennium 2016-2017 resolutionsCompare with earlier document

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What subjects does this mandate have?

23 topics
AppropriationsAutomobile ParkingBooksCateringContractual ServicesCreditEquipment and SuppliesFinancial RegulationsFundsGuided ToursIncomeLibrary AcquisitionsMapsPeriodicalsPostal ServicesPrintingProgramme BudgetingProgramme ExpendituresPublicationsPurchasing

What does this mandate say?

17 operative paragraphs

A

Resolves that, for the biennium 2006–2007:
1
Appropriations totalling 3,798,912,500 United States dollars are hereby approved for the following purposes:
2
The Secretary-General shall be authorized to transfer credits between sections of the budget with the concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;
3
The budget for the biennium 2006–2007 amounts to 3,799 million dollars. Expected expenditure in the course of 2006 is 1,899 million dollars. The two-year budget will permit a full assessment on all Member States for 2006, in accordance with Article 17 of the Charter of the United Nations. The Secretary-General, while adhering to the existing procedures regarding the annual assessment on Member States, is authorized to enter into expenditure of a first tranche, limited to 950 million dollars, as an exceptional measure. The General Assembly, in order to ensure the availability of resources for programme delivery, will act in response to a request from the Secretary-General, at an appropriate time, for expenditure of the remaining funds;
4
The total net provision made under the various sections of the budget for contractual printing shall be administered as a unit under the direction of the United Nations Publications Board;
5
In addition to the appropriations approved under paragraph 1 above, an amount of 75,000 dollars is appropriated for each year of the biennium 2006–2007 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the library at the Palais des Nations in Geneva as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment.

B

Resolves that, for the biennium 2006–2007:
1
Estimates of income other than assessments on Member States totalling 427,355,200 United States dollars are approved as follows:
2
The income from staff assessment shall be credited to the Tax Equalization Fund in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955;
3
Direct expenses of the United Nations Postal Administration, services to visitors, the sale of statistical products, catering operations and related services, garage operations, television services and the sale of publications not provided for under the budget appropriations shall be charged against the income derived from those activities.

C

Resolves that, for the year 2006:
1
Budget appropriations consisting of 1,899,456,250 United States dollars, being half of the appropriation of 3,798,912,500 dollars approved for the biennium 2006–2007 by the General Assembly in paragraph 1 of resolution A above, plus 47,626,700 dollars, being the increase in revised appropriations for the biennium 2004–2005 approved by the Assembly in its resolutions 59/282 of 13 April 2005, 59/294 of 22 June 2005 and 60/244 of and 60/245 A of 23 December 2005, shall be financed in accordance with regulations 3.1 and 3.2 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations, as follows:
a
22,242,700 dollars, consisting of 12,810,200 dollars, being the net of half of the estimated income other than staff assessment approved for the biennium 2006–2007 under resolution B above, plus 9,432,500 dollars, being the increase in income other than staff assessment for the biennium 2004–2005;
b
1,924,840,250 dollars, being the assessment on Member States in accordance with its resolution 58/1 B of 23 December 2003;
2
There shall be set off against the assessment on Member States, in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund in the total amount of 218,242,100 dollars, consisting of:
a
200,867,400 dollars, being half of the estimated staff assessment income approved for the biennium 2006–2007 in resolution B above;
b
17,374,700 dollars, being the increase in income from staff assessment for the biennium 2004–2005 approved by the Assembly in its resolutions 59/282 of 13 April 2005, 59/294 of 22 June 2005 and 60/244 and 60/245 B of 23 December 2005.

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