31. The Executive Committee decided that the Chief Officer and the Fund Secretariat be given all the necessary means of performing their functions in the most independent, efficient and effective manner possible.
32. To accomplish that goal, the Executive Committee decided that UNEP transfer to the Fund Secretariat all funds approved in the Budget of the Fund Secretariat, with the exception of personnel costs (lines 1101 - 1109 and 1301 - 1309), in a single budget action on a quarterly basis; and that the administrative support charge in respect of the budget of the Fund Secretariat payable to UNEp should be limited to the above-stated personnel costs. UNEP should also be reimbursed from the budget of the Fund Secretariat, for any justifiable support costs incurred in other operations covered by that budget, in accordance with decision II/8, paragraph 3(c) of the Second Meeting of the Parties. The view was expressed that there were no known rules that allowed one international secretariat to ask another for support costs for its personnel and that the matter should be considered at the Third Meeting of the Parties.