Decision on the first item on the agenda: Programme and Budget proposals for 2014–15. Director-General’s proposals for adjustments to the Programme and Budget proposals for 2014–15

Record of decisions | 22 March 2013

Decision on the first item on the agenda: Programme and Budget proposals for 2014–15

Director-General’s proposals for adjustments to the Programme and Budget proposals for 2014–15

Subject to the positions taken during the course of the discussion, as noted in the minutes of its 317th Session (March 2013) the Governing Body:

(a) recommended to the International Labour Conference at its 102nd Session (2013) a provisional programme level of $864,006,872 estimated at the 2012–13 budget exchange rate of 0.84 Swiss francs to the US dollar, the final exchange rate and the corresponding US dollar level of the budget and Swiss franc assessment to be determined by the Conference; and

(b) proposed to the Conference at its 102nd Session (2013) a resolution for the adoption of the programme and budget for the 74th financial period (2014–15) and for the allocation of expenses among member States in that period in the following terms:

    The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, in virtue of the Financial Regulations, passes for the 74th financial period, ending 31 December 2015, the budget of expenditure for the International Labour Organization amounting to $............... and the budget of income amounting to $................., which, at the budget rate of exchange of Swiss francs …………. to the US dollar amounts to Swiss francs ……….., and resolves that the budget of income, denominated in Swiss francs, shall be allocated among member States in accordance with the scale of contributions recommended by the Finance Committee of Government Representatives.

(Document GB.317/PFA/1/1, paragraph 9, as amended.)