a.weu/documents File: 1325cbaa.add Document 1325 Addendum 1st December 1992 Draft budget of the administrative expenditure for the financial year 1993 ______ Opinion of the Council ______ REPORT (1) submitted on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Affairs and Administration (2) by Mr. Rathbone, Chairman and Rapporteur ______ TABLE OF CONTENTS EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM APPENDICES I. Note by the Secretary-General on the WEU Assembly budget for 1993 - Document C-B (92) 16 II. Extract from the summary report of the Council meeting held on 25th November 1992 III. Recapitulatory table of budget estimates for 1993 as a result of the opinion of the Council IV. Trend of Assembly budgets from 1992 to 1993 ______ Explanatory Memorandum The draft budget for the financial year 1993 (Document 1325) was first examined by the WEU Budget and Organisation Committee on 24th September 1992. This committee having decided to revise estimates for the salaries of permanent and temporary staff on the basis of information given by the Co- ordinating Committee, the Office of the Clerk of the Assembly transmitted to the Budget and Organisation Committee a working paper setting out the new financial implications. At its meeting on 13th November 1992, the Budget and Organisation Committee examined the draft budget of the Assembly for the financial year 1993 as set out in Document 1325 and the abovementioned working paper. It decided that the policy of budgetary limitations in force in member countries did not allow the total growth rate of 17.55% proposed by the Assembly to be accepted. (This growth rate was 15.28% before the revision requested by the Budget and Organisation Committee.) Consequently, it decided to recommend to the Council: - the withdrawal of the proposals concerning the staff of the Office of the Clerk (creation of three new posts and regrading of four existing posts); - the withdrawal of estimates included with a view to the accession of Greece to WEU since the protocol of accession of that country could certainly not be ratified before the financial year 1994; - to allow the Assembly a growth rate of 6.5% for the operating budget as a whole (Heads I to V less receipts); - to accept the growth rate of 13.13% in the pensions budget in which a new pension has been included. At its meeting on 25th November 1992, the Council decided to accept the recommendations of its Budget and Organisation Committee, ad referendum in the case of the United Kingdom Delegation. As a result of the reductions made by the Council, the net total budget of the Assembly (operating plus pensions) is reduced from F 33 635 500 (the total adjusted on the basis of the working paper amounted to F 34 298 500) to F 31 268 000. In relation to the financial year 1992, this new total represents a growth rate of 7.17%. The table at Appendix III shows estimates revised in accordance with the opinion of the Council divided into heads and sub-heads. ---------------- APPENDIX I Note by the Secretary-General on the WEU Assembly budget for 1993 - Document C-B (92) 16 20th November 1992 ______ The WEU Budget and Organisation Committee examined the draft budget of the Assembly for 1993, the broad lines of which were described by Mr. Rathbone, Chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Affairs and Administration, at the meeting on 24th September 1992. The committee noted that expenditure for staff had been calculated without taking into account the implications of Paris/Brussels economic parity as agreed by the Co-ordinating Committee. The Office of the Clerk of the Assembly drafted a working paper to adjust the 1993 budget in accordance with the abovementioned comment. This revised draft budget was examined at the meeting of the committee on 13th November 1992. The net total budget proposed by the Assembly was as follows: A. Operating budget F 30 990 500 B. Pensions budget F 3 308 000 These figures show an increase of 17.55% compared with the net grand total of the budget for 1992. The Budget and Organisation Committee considered that estimates relating to the accession of Greece to WEU should be withdrawn from the operating budget. A majority of the delegates said the proposals for creating new posts and regrading existing posts could not be accepted. After a long discussion, it was proposed to allow a growth rate of 6.50% in the net total operating budget of the Assembly, it being understood that the latter would adjust its budget estimates within these limits on the basis of its own priorities. The conclusions reached by the WEU Budget and Organisation Committee mean a reduction of F 3 065 500 in the operating budget. In regard to the pensions budget, the committee noted that the estimates take account of the increased scales agreed by the Co-ordinating Committee and a new pension payable as from 1st January 1993. The table below shows the sums initially proposed and the revised figures recommended by the committee. 1993 1993 ________________ _______________ Original credits Revised credits proposed by recommended by the Assembly the BOC A. Operating budget Head I Permanent staff 18 455 000 Head II Temporary staff 5 119 000 Head III Expenditure on premises 28 035 000 and equipment 2 072 000 Head IV General administrative costs 2 255 500 Head V Other expenditure 3 199 000 _________________________________________________ Total expenditure 31 100 500 28 035 000 Receipts 110 000 110 000 _________________________________________________ NET TOTAL 30 990 500 27 925 000 __________________________________________________ B. Pensions budget Pensions and leaving allowances 4 108 000 4 108 000 Receipts 800 000 765 000 __________________________________________________ NET TOTAL 3 308 000 3 343 000 __________________________________________________ GENERAL NET TOTAL 31 268 500 31 268 000 -------------------------------- APPENDIX II Extract from the summary report of the Council meeting held on 25th November 1992 Assembly budget for 1993 (C-B (92) 16) Subject to the details of the Budget Committee's decision on this subject contained in the summary report of its last meeting on 13th November, the Council can approve the Assembly's budget for 1993 - ad referendum in the case of the British Delegation. 1. Adopted in committee by 9 votes to 0 with 1 abstention and approved by the Presidential Committee. 2. Members of the committee: Mr. Rathbone (Chairman) (Alternate: Lord Mackie of Benshie); MM. Lagorce, Maass (Vice- Chairmen); MM. Alvarez (Alternate: Roman), Antretter, Mrs. Durrieu, Mm. 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