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The Thirty-eighth Meeting of the
Executive Committee decided:
(a) to
adopt a new administrative cost regime for the 2003-2005 triennium that
includes US $1.5 million, subject to annual review, for a core unit
funding budget per year, applying in addition:
(i) an agency fee of 7.5 per cent for projects
with a project cost at or above US $250,000, as well as institutional
strengthening projects and project preparation;
(ii) an agency fee of 9 per cent for projects with
a project cost below US $250,000, including country programme preparation;
(b) to
apply the above regime to UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank;
(c) to
urge Implementing Agencies to strive toward achieving optimization of these
support costs, taking into account the goal of Decision VIII/4 of the Eighth
Meeting of the Parties to reduce agency support costs to an average below 10
per cent, recognizing that new challenges in the implementation of projects during
the compliance period would require substantial support from Implementing
Agencies;
(d) review the
administrative cost regime and its core unit funding budget at the 41st Meeting
of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/70/Rev.1, Decision 38/68, para. 116).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/38/59).
The
Forty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to continue to monitor
the administrative cost regime adopted by Decision 38/68 in the context of
budget requests for future years bearing in mind the need to maintain an
overall rate of administrative costs below 10 per cent as was achieved in 2002
and 2003.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/87,
Decision 41/94, para. 150(d)).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/41/81).
The
Forty-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(c) to request a review of the current
administrative cost regime and provide recommendations either for its
continuance or for an alternative administrative cost regime for the 2006-2008
triennium; and
(d) to request the Implementing Agencies to
provide more in-depth information on their administrative costs, in time for it
to be used in the review of the administrative cost regime to be presented by
the Secretariat at the 46th Meeting of the Executive Committee.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/44/73,
Decision 44/7, para. 58 (c,
d)).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/44/9 and Corr.1).
The
Forty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) to note the review of administrative costs
presented in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/46/40;
(b) to extend the operation of decision 38/68 and
its administrative cost regime for the 2006-2008 triennium, with the following
modifications:
(i) the
base rate for core unit costs for UNDP and UNIDO would be US $1.7 million
instead of US $1.5 million;
(ii) an
annual increase of up to 3 per cent for UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank based on
budgets to be submitted for approval at the last Meeting of the year for the
following year;
(c) to review the operation of the administrative
cost regime as modified by the present decision before the end of the following
triennium; and
(d) to note that, for UNIDO to maintain its
current level of administrative costs, it would need either to increase its
revenue significantly, including continued and increasing subsidies from UNIDO,
or to significantly reduce its administrative costs, or both.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/46/47,
Decision 46/35, para. 144).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/46/40).
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