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/61/262View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 117 Programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, published in 2006.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2007–2011

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/65/258

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2011	A/RES/65/258	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	967	37%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/259	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	858	39%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/262	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	1,088	–

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	Human resources	13

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	Human resources	13	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2013–2016

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/201	Conditions 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		A/RES/65/258
2013	A/68/188	Conditions 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		A/RES/65/258

What subjects does this mandate have?

17 subjects

Budget Performance Education Grant International Courts International Criminal Courts Judges Netherlands (Kingdom of The)Pension Schemes Pensions Post Adjustment Report Preparation Retirement Rules and Regulations Salaries and Allowances Subsistence Allowance Travel Costs United Republic of Tanzania Working Conditions

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

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;

Recalls that the International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations;

Also recalls section III, paragraph 4, of its resolution 59/282, by which it decided to increase the annual salary of the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by 6.3 per cent as an interim measure, and further recalls section III, paragraph 8, of the resolution;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions contained in its report,2 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Recalls its resolution 37/240 of 21 December 1982, and requests the Secretary-General to review and update the travel and subsistence regulations for the International Court of Justice, taking into account the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in paragraph 15 of its report2 and bearing in mind the relevant provisions of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, and to report thereon to the General Assembly, for its approval, at its sixty-second session;

Endorses the proposal of the Secretary-General contained in paragraph 80 of his report1 whereby the annual salaries of the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda would comprise an annual base salary with a corresponding post adjustment per index point equal to one per cent of the net base salary to which would be applied a post adjustment multiplier, as appropriate, taking into account the proposals of the Secretary-General contained in paragraphs 83 and 84 of his report;1

Decides to set, effective 1 January 2007, the annual net base salary of the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda at 133,500 United States dollars, with a corresponding post adjustment per index point equal to one per cent of the net base salary, to which would be applied the post adjustment multiplier for the Netherlands or for the United Republic of Tanzania, as appropriate;

Also decides to maintain, as a transitional measure, in line with the provisions of Article 32, paragraph 5, of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the level of annual salary approved in section III of its resolution 59/282 for the current members of the International Court of Justice and the judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the duration of their current term of office or until such a time as this amount is overtaken by the application of the revised annual salary system;

Further decides that any decisions with regard to the increase in the salary and other allowances of the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda shall not constitute a precedent for any other category of judges working within the United Nations system and that any decision regarding the service of any other category of judges shall be taken on a case-by-case basis;

Decides to maintain, as an interim measure, the retirement 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 at the level resulting from the annual base salary decided in section III of its resolution 59/282, and requests the Secretary-General to revise article 1, paragraph 2, of the Pension Scheme Regulations accordingly;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on options for designing 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, including defined-benefit and defined-contribution schemes, taking into account the possibility of calculating pensions on the basis of the number of years served rather than the term of office;

Recalls section I of its resolution 61/239 of 22 December 2006, and decides to extend its decision on the level of education grant 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;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly on the additional expenditures in the context of the second performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007 and the second performance reports on the budgets of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the biennium 2006–2007.

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