Payment of Travelling and Subsistence Expenses to Representatives to the General Assembly and Members of Commissions and Other Bodies

A/RES/231(III)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1948.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Administrative Procedure Rules and Regulations Subsistence Allowance Travel Reimbursement Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

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Confirms the policy followed by the Secretary-General as regards the payment of travelling expenses and of subsistence allowances at the meeting-place of a commission or committee. It confirms also the practice of paying such expenses

to:

A rapporteur or chairman of a committee or sub-commission who is called upon to present in an expert capacity the report of a committee or sub-commission to a parent body; and

One member of a commission acting as its representative on a second commission or committee of the United Nations;

Deci.Jes that travelling and subsistence expenses shall be payable out of United Nations funds to one representative of any Member participating in a commission of inquiry or conciliation instituted by the General Assembly or by the Security Council, subject to the proviso that an exception to this rule may be permitted on the decision of the organ concerned that an alternate for each member is necessary ;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to reimburse retroactively, on the basis of paragraph 2 above, travelling and subsistence expenses incurred by Members participating in existing commissions of inquiry or conciliation instituted by the General Assembly or the Security Council;

Reajfi1'm8 that travelling expenses, but not subsistence allowances, shall be paid out of United Nations funds in respect of one representative of each Member participating in Commissions or Sub-Commissions of the Economic and Social Council as set forth in General Assembly resolution 7 0 (1) 1 ;

Deeides that neither travelling nor subsistence expenses shall be paid out of United Nations funds in respect of representatives to :

Organs or subsidiary organs in continuous or virtually continuous session;

1 See Ruolution, adopled by 1h. G,,..,.al .Auembly during the second part of its first seasion, page 132.

231 (III). Payement des frais de voyage et d'une indemnite de subsistance aux representants a I' Assemblee commissions et autres organes

I L' AssembUe generate

de voyage et d'une indemnite de subsistance au lieu de reunion d'une commission ou d'un comite. ces frais sont payes ;

a) ·Au rapporteur OU au president d'un comite ou d'une sous-commission qui est appele, en

ii est issu ; et b) Aun membre d'une commission qui represente cette commission aupres d'un autre comite ou commission de !'Organisation des Nations Unies;

nites de subsistance doivent ~tre a la charge de !'Organisation des Nations Unies lorsqu'il s'agit d'un representant de tout Etat Membre participant a une commission d'enqutite ou de concilia- Conseil de securite, sous reserve qu'une exception a cette regle pourra titre admise sur decision de I' organe interesse stipulant la necessite d'un suppleant pour chaque Membre;

Autorise le Secretaire general a rembourser, a titre retroactif et conformement au paragraphe 2 nites de subsistance engages par les Etats Membres participant aux commissions d'enqu~te ou de conciliation deja existantes instituees par l'As-

Reaffirme que !'Organisation des Nations Unies doit payer les frais de voyage, a l'exclusion de toute indemnite de subsistance, a un seul representant de chacun des Etats Membres parti-

la resolution 7 0 (I) de l'Assemblee generale 1 ; nites de subsistance ne doivent ~tre a la charge de !'Organisation des Nations Unies lorsqu'il s'agit de representants aupres :

a) Des organes proprement dits ou des organes subsidiaires qui siegent en permanence ou, pour ainsi dire, sans interruption;

1 Voir les Re,olu&iona adoplllu par I' AuembUe lfM"OUI pendant la sec:onde partie de sa premiere session, page 132.

Organs ,w subsi<liary organs, the Members of which hav,, a particular local inter .. st in the region served ;

Coricui·:; in the observations of lhl~ Advi~ory Committee or, Administl'ative and Budgetary Questions a~ n•gards the adrninistration of mlcs rclatinu lo f lw paynwnt of ~uch travelling and suh>'istence cxpensfs. 1 * * * l'lw applicatio11 oj the fore3oi111J principles to existing bodies ~( tl,e Unitrd Nations is shOlrn ;11 appeiuli:c A be!on•.

H The General Assembly.

Desiring to improve thr administrative control of expe11diturc incurrerl hy missiom away from headquarters,

Directs that decisions relating to the itinerary and duration of journeys of mission~ meeting away from hca<lquart,:r~ shall require the consent of I he Secretary-General.

Hundred and .fiftieth plenary meeting,

8 October 1948.

Appendix

Appendix AThe following schedule shows how the foregoing d~cisions will he applied to the principal and subsidiary organs of the United Nations.

Bodies for which travelling and subsistence expenses will he paid :

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, Committee on Contributions, Board of Auditor&;

Suh-Commissions of the Economic and Social Council on which the members serve in a personal capacity;

Visiting missions of the Trusteeship Council;

Advisory committees of an expert character established by the Secretary-General, e.g., the Staff Benefit Committee, International Civil Service Advisory Board, Committee of Library Experts, etc. ;

Commissions of inquiry or conciliation instituted by lhf' GPneral Assembly or the Security Council_, e.g., the Palestine Commission, the SpEcial ComrrutlPe on the Balkans, the Temporary Commission on Korea, etc b) Des organes principaux ou subsidiaires s'occupant de regions dans lesquelles les Membn•s de ccs organcs ont des interets locaux particuliers;

6. S' associe aux observations du Comitt) consultatif pour les questions administratives ,-t hudgetaires sur l'application de regles relatives au paicrnent de ces frais de voyage et de ccs indmrnites de suhsistance1 • * * * J,'11pplicalio11 drs j-1"1I1opcs i1wnds ci-dessu, au.t organes deja cx,stants dl's \ations U11ies est indiquee a 11 l'aj1pc11diCP A ci-desw11s.

II L 'Assemblee generale,

Desi,reuse d'ameliorer le controle administratif l' Organisation,

Ordonne que les decisions relatives a l'itinele lieu de reunion est situe en dehors du siege Stiront subordonnees a l'assentiment du Secretaire general.

Cent-ci111.uantie111e seance pl.eniere,

le 8 octobre 1948.

APPENDICE A Le tableau suivant indique comment les decisions qui precedent s'appliqueront aux differents organes et organes suhsidiaircs des Nations Unies.

Organes pour lesq,nels !'Organisation payera les frais de voyage et versera une indemnite de suhsistance :

social dont les memhres siegent a titre personnel;

c) Missions de visite du Conseil de tutelle;

d) Comites consultatifs de caractere technique crees

sultatif d'administration internationale, le Comite d'experts bibliothecaires,- etc.;

e) Commissions d'enquMe ou de. conciliation

Palestine, la Commission speciale pour Jes Balkans,

Bodies for which travelling expenses will he paid:

General Assembly : five representatives of each Memhrr;

Commissions of the Economic and Social Council to which representatives are nominated by Governments in consultation wi:h the Secretary- General and subsequently confirmed by the Council.

Bodies for which no travelling expenses or 11ubsistence allowances will be paid :

a) Security Council;

b) Economic and Social Council;

c) Trusteeship Council;

d) Atomic Energy Commission ;

e) Commission for Conventional Armaments;

/) Interim Committee of the General Assembly;

Special conferences to which Governments are invited to send representatives;

Regional economic commissions.

·· ' Sell document A/534, paragraph 62.

1 ,oir le document A/534, parnaraplw (i'.:!

1 Se,· tlocumPnl A/G:i .-, . ' See rlornmrnt .\/till:',.

2 \'oir lr document .\.1(\1;:1.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

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Appendix AThe following schedule shows how the foregoing d~cisions will he applied to the principal and subsidiary organs of the United Nations.

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