Many of those shortcomings had been identified in previous bienniums by the Board.

The table also provides a comparison with previous cost levels.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the Executive Office is responsible for

The annex provides the comparative numbers of civilian staff and military personnel for the current and prior periods.

This vacuum may encourage, as in previous historical periods, the ambitious and the aggressive to seek their own advantage.

The programme started during the previous mandate periods and is expected to continue during the third mandate period.

Received contributions represent 75 per cent of the approved budget and outstanding contributions from prior periods.

(i) Refunds of expenditures charged to prior financial periods are credited to miscellaneous income

It was noted that some responses in the third reporting cycle appeared to contradict those provided in earlier cycles.

The provision of 109,000 for general temporary assistance in the Treasury covers 12 person months (General Service (Other level)) to assist in the considerable increased workload relating to foreign exchange transactions and the amount of funds invested.

That amount ( 2,903,105), plus any additional outstanding contributions received during 2005 against the prior bienniums, will be distributed to eligible Member States on 1 January 2006, unless decided otherwise by the General Conference.

76. As in earlier periods, the Human Rights Division has observed substantive respect by the State of the right to freedom of expression.

They would also apply to all outstanding contributions, whether for prior or current periods.

The proposals under this section reflect the outcome of the reorganization of the administrative services at the United Nations Office at Vienna undertaken in the previous bienniums.

However, some States that had adopted measures during the previous reporting periods may not have made further changes in the third reporting period.

Full provision is made for contributions outstanding from prior years of 110,666,788 as at 31 December 2004.

This estimate is based on a full military strength of 4,250 as compared with an authorized level of 6,226 for the previous period.

In paragraph 41 of his report, the Secretary General refers to amounts which have not been reimbursed to certain troop contributors in respect of past mandate periods.

This should be done by referring to the relevant passage of decision 1 COP.6, which summarizes the results of previous years' reviews.

An analysis of the collection of assessed contributions was performed to evaluate the level of recovery of current assessments, as well as contributions that remain outstanding from prior financial periods.

Despite an almost 100 per cent budget implementation rate, large amounts of prior period obligations that had been included in the performance reports as expenditures had been subsequently cancelled.

Common staff cost requirements have been estimated at 63 per cent of net salaries and are based on the actual expenditure patterns in the prior periods.

Savings of 223,000 under prefabricated units resulted from adjustments to the accounts for transactions recorded during prior periods.

This amount is in addition to 55.8 million apportioned and obligated for prior periods as shown in annex VII to the Secretary General apos s report.

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OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN TIMES OF ARMED CONFLICT

The balance of 936,500 represented reimbursement to Governments for mission subsistence allowance that they paid to their observers during prior periods.

(l) Savings on liquidation of General Fund prior periods apos obligations are credited directly to the surplus account of that fund.

B. Previous reviews

In prior years

The amount of construction was somewhat less than in previous reporting periods, and in some cases minor construction was stopped when protested by UNFICYP.

Transition periods

Reporting periods

Where this situation occurred in previous biennia, ITC retroactively adjusted project accounts to ensure trust fund donors were credited in respect of any amounts overcharged.

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Contributions outstanding from member States for prior periods (1998 to 2003 and 2004) totalled 447,193.

As of at 31 December 2004, the secretariat has recorded a cumulative surplus from savings from operations of previous periods and interest income to the amount of US 3,197,370.

The provision represents contributions receivable from Member States for prior bienniums and from new Member States at the balance sheet date.

So we have these feast and famine cycles.

Note by the Executive Secretary

Future sessional periods

These additional funds are requested to purchase sanitation and cleaning materials in quantities higher than in the previous reporting periods, following the overall increase in the staffing of the Mission in May 1994.

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THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN TIMES OF ARMED CONFLICT