Scale of Assessments for the Apportionment of the Expenses of the United Nations Resolutions

A/RES/44/197View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 129 Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations, published in 1990.

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116 documents · 1948–2024

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/249	Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations	1,658	–
2022	A/RES/76/238	Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations	1,645	–
2019	A/RES/73/271	Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations	1,624	–
2016	A/RES/70/245	Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations	1,683	–
2013	A/RES/67/238	Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations	1,744	–

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Budget Contributions Statistical Methodology

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Reaffirms that:

The capacity to pay is the fundamental criterion (a) for determining the scale of assessments;

The scale of assessments should be determined on the basis of reliable, verifiable and comparable data;

The methodology for determining the scale of as sessments should be simplified as far as possible with a view to making it more transparent and stable over time;

' Fakes note of the possible areas for adjustments to the existing methodology identified in the report of the Committee on Contributions;86 t Requests the Committee on Contributions:

To continue its work on the following elements of (a) the existing methodology:

The statistical base period;

(1i) The debt adjustment factor;

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The per capita income limit;

The scheme to avoid excessive variations of in dividual rates of assessment between successive scales;

As a means further to improve the current methodology:

To examine fully the use of other factors, including the situation of countries having the economic characteristics outlined in resolution 43/223 B,

paragraph 3;

To continue its work on the price-adjusted rates of exchange methodology;

To continue, in conformity with the mandate set out in resolution 43/223 B, paragraph 2 (e), its considera tion of ad hoc adjustments to the machine scale, which should be uniformly applied, based on broad, objective, ra tional and transparent criteria, including those mentioned in paragraph 38 of the report of the Committee on Contri butions, and which should be limited in scope and made on a voluntary and multilateral basis;

Also requests the Committee on Contributions to submit to the General Assembly, at its forty-fifth session, recommendations on adjustments, if necessary and where appropriate, to the elements and factors referred to in paragraph 3 of the present resolution;

Invites the Committee on Contributions, in con ducting the work mentioned in paragraph 3 of the present resolution, to continue to examine the interrelationship of each of the elements and factors as a part of the overall methodology;

Requests the Committee on Contributions to pro ceed with the further exploration of alternative income concepts and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session;

Also requests the Committee on Contributions to consider excluding the allocation of any additional points, as a result of the application of the scheme of limits, to those Member States having a very low per capita income, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty fifth session;

Further requests the Committee on Contributions to include in its report to the General Assembly at its forty fifth session illustrative examples, consistent with the sta tistical annexes to its report to the Assembly at its forty fourth session, of the implications of using the elements and factors mentioned in the present resolution, including different alternatives for ceiling and floor amounts.

IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION CONTROL AND LIMITATION OF DOCUMENTATION 8' A;44/502.

K6 Of icial Records of the General Assembly. Forty-Jimrth Session.

Supplement No. l I and addendum and corrigendum (A/44/11 and Add. I and Add. L'Corr. 1)

87 Ibid., Forty-j,,urth Session. Fifth Committee, 1J1h. 171h, 1Xth, 20th t<> 2 ini, 25th and ''lth m,Tting,. and corrigendum 84 See A/44/222 and Corr.I, para. 104

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF THF STAFF IN THE PROFESSIONAL AND HIGHER CATEGORIES '8 Ibid .. J·,>rty-Jinmh Sesswn. Supplement No. 30 (A/44/30), vols. I and II.

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Supplcm,·111 .1\/o. 9 (A/44/9); and A/C.5/44/14,

A/ I' 'il44 1lo. AIC.5;44 Ið and A/C.5/44/20.

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