A/RES/3540(XXX) GA

Resolutiona adopted on the reporta of the Fifth Committee 141 together with supplementary appropriations for 1974-1975 totalling $US 6,517,00076 shall be financed in ac- cordance with regulations 5.1 and 5.2 of the Financia! Regulations of the United Nations as follows: . . (a) $8,370,150 being half of the es~ated income other than staff assessment approved for the b1enmum 1976-1977 under General Assembly resolution 3539 B (XXX); (b) $1,242,000 being the revised income other than staff assessment for 1974-1975; (e) $365,902 being contributions of new Member States for 1974-1975; (d) $369,445,848 being the assessment on Member States in accordance with General Assembly resolu- tion 3062 (XXVIII) of 9 November 1973 on the scale of assessments for the years 1974, 1975 and 1976; 2. There shall be set off against the assessment on Member Sta~es, in a~ordance with the provisi?ns. of General Assembly resolution 973 (X) of 15 J?e~mber 1955, thetr respective share of the Tax Equahzation Fund in a total amount of $US 49,125,000 consisttng of: (a) $50,776,000 being half of the estimated staff assessment income approved for the biennium 1976- 1977 under General Assembly resolution 3539 B (XXX); (b) Less $1,651,000 being the reduction in the revised income from staff assessment for 1974-1975. 2444th plenary meeting 17 December 1975 76 Resolution 3531 (XXX). 3540 (XXX). Unforeseen and·extraordinary expenses for the biennium 1976-1977 The General Assembly l. Authorizes the Secretary-General, with the prior concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Adminis- trative and Budgetary Questions and subject to the Financia! Regulations of the United Nations and the provisions of paragraph 3 below, to enter into com- mitments to meet unforeseen and extraordinary expenses in the biennium 1976-1977, provided that the concur- rence of the Advisory Committee shall not be necessary for: (a) Such commitments, not exceeding · a total of $US 2 million in any one year of the biennium 1976- 1977, as the Secretary-General certifies relate to the maintenance of peace and security; (b) Such commitments as the President of the In- temational Court of Justice certifies relate to expenses occasioned by: (i) The designation of ad hoc judges (Statute of the Court, Article 31 ) , not exceeding a total of $100,000; (ii) The appointment of assessors (Statute, Arti- cle 30), or the calling of witnesses and the appointment of experts ( Sta tute, Article 50), not exceeding a total of $50,000; (iii) The holding of sessions of the Court away from The Hague (Statute, Article 22), not exceeding a total of $150,000; (iv) Toe maintenance in office of judges who have not been re-elected (Statute, Article 13, para- graph 3), not exceeding a total of $60,000 in 1976; (v) The payment of pensions and travel and re- moval expenses of retiring judges, and travel and removal expenses of new members of the Court, not exceeding a total of $137,000 in 1976, and the payment of pensions of retiring judges not exceeding a total of $113,000 in 1977; 2. Resolves that the Secretary-General shall report to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and to the General Assembly at its thirty-first and thirty-second sessions all commit- ments made under the provisions of the present resolu- tion, together with the circumstances relating thereto, and shall submit supplementary estimates to the Assem- bly in respect of such commitments; 3. Decides that if, as a result of a decision of the Security Council, commitments relating to the mainte- nance of peace and security should arise in an esti- mated total exceeding $1 O million befo re either the thirty-first or the thirty-second session of the General Assembly, a special session of the Assembly shall be convened by the Secretary-General to consider the matter. 2444th plenary meeting 17 December 1975 3541 (XXX). Working Capital Fund for the hiennium 1976-1977 The General Assembly Resolves that: 1. The Working Capital Fund shall be established for the biennium 1976-1977 in the amount of $OS 40 million; 2. Member States shall make ad vanees to the W ork- ing Capital Fund in accordance with the scale adopted by the General Assembly for contributions of Members to the budget for the biennium 1976-1977; 3. There shall be set off against this allocation of advances: (a) Credits to Member States resulting from trans- fers made in 1959 and 1960 from surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in a total amount of $1,079,158; (b) Cash advances paid by Member States to the Working Capital Fund for the biennium 1974-1975 under General Assembly resolution 3197 (XXVIII) of 18 December 1973; 4. Should the credits and advances paid by any Member State to the Working Capital Fund for the biennium 1974-1975 exceed the amount of that Mem- ber State's advance under the provisions of paragraph 2 above, the excess shall be set off against the amount of the contributions payable by the Member State in respect of the biennium 1976-1977; 5. The Secretary-General is authorized to advance from the Working Capital Fund: (a) Such sums as may be necessary to finance bl;ldg~tary appropriations pending the receipt of con- tnbutions; sums so advanced shall be reimbursed as

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