Decision 65/52

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the Secretariat’s feedback on the appropriate rate of increase for staff costs, contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/65/58;
2. To maintain the 3 per cent rate applied to the 2012, 2013 as well as 2014 budgets and to request the Secretariat to revisit the rate of 3 per cent in 2012 to further assess the most appropriate rate once all positions had been filled and occupied for at least two years;
3. To approve the amount of US $3,034,869 in the revised 2012 budget of the Fund Secretariat, as contained in Annex IV to the present report, to cover the operational costs of the Secretariat and the 2012 revised personnel component cost, resulting in a total of US $6,919,774;
4. To approve the additional amount of US $42,063 in the revised 2013 personnel component costs of the budget totalling US $4,043,516; and
5. To approve the proposed 2014 personnel component costs of the budget totalling US $4,164,821;
6. To request the Secretariat to report to the Executive Committee in the future on any balances returned to the Fund and provide information on how such balances were utilized in the document of the final accounts of the Fund.