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Conditions of Service and Compensation for Officials Other than Secretariat Officials : Members of the International Court of Justice and Judges and Ad Litem Judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

A/RES/65/258No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 129Programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2007–2011
  • 2011A/RES/65/258Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials : members of the International Court of Justice and judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2009A/RES/63/259Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials : members of the International Court of Justice and judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaCompare with previous version
  • 2007A/RES/61/262Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials : members of the International Court of Justice and judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
JudgesPension SchemesPensionsSalaries and AllowancesWorking Conditions

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2013–2016.

  • 2016A/71/201Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials : members of the International Court of Justice, President and judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia report of the Secretary-General
  • 2013A/68/188Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials : members of the International Court of Justice and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General;Error: Reference source not found
2
Reaffirms the principle that the conditions of service and compensation for non-Secretariat United Nations officials shall be separate and distinct from those for officials of the Secretariat;
3
Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, subject to the provisions of the present resolution;
4
Takes note that the review of the pension benefits of the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda will take place at its sixty-sixth session, including options for defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes;
5
Decides to review at its sixty-sixth session the pension schemes for the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and requests the Secretary-General to include in his report a proposal for a mechanism that he may use to determine retirement pension benefits, taking into account acquired pension benefit rights accrued prior to serving in the Court or the Tribunals;
6
Also decides to increase the special allowance of the Presidents and that of the Vice-Presidents, when acting as President of the Court or the Tribunals, to 25,000 United States dollars per year and 156 dollars per day, respectively;
7
Further decides that the relocation allowance benefit received by the judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda shall be the same as that received by the members of the International Court of Justice;
8
Decides to grant a one-time ex gratia payment upon completion of service for ad litem judges who have served for a continuous period of more than three years, on the basis of the length of time served exceeding those three years, as per the schedule contained in annex to the present resolution;
9
Also decides that, owing to the unique and exceptional circumstances of the conditions of service of ad litem judges in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, arising from the failure to establish a second pool of ad litem judges, the decision set out in paragraph 8 above shall under no circumstances constitute a precedent for eligibility for elements of conditions of service, as such eligibility does not exist under the current regulatory framework;
10
Further decides to re-establish a three-year cycle for the review of the conditions of service and compensation for the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges and ad litem judges of the two Tribunals, and to undertake the next comprehensive review at its sixty-eighth session.
One-time ex gratia payment schedule for ad litem judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Note: Payment is prorated by number of months.

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