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GB.273/PFA/1
273rd Session
Geneva, November 1998

Programme, Financial and Administrative Committee

PFA

FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA

Programme and Budget for 1997-98

Regular budget account and Working Capital Fund

1. Information on the position of 1998-99 income and expenditure as at 31 October 1998 is submitted herewith. Additional information on the position of member States in relation to the receipt of contributions is provided in Appendices I and II. Appendix I gives details of contributions received and amounts due as at that date, while Appendix II gives details of those member States which, at 31 October, had lost the right to vote under the provisions of paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution.

Budgetary income and expenditure

2. Under the system of Swiss franc assessments combined with forward purchasing of US dollar requirements introduced in 1990-91, budgetary income(1) is accounted for in US dollars at the ILO budget rate of exchange for the financial period, and Swiss franc expenditure is recorded in US dollars at the same rate of exchange. US dollar budgetary income and expenditure figures reported herein accordingly result from the conversion of Swiss franc income and expenditure to US dollars at the 1998-99 budget rate of exchange of 1.46 Swiss francs to the US dollar. Budgetary income and expenditure as at 31 October 1998 were as follows:

US dollars

Income

 

Assessed contributions for 1998

146 367 779   

Transfer of 1996-97 surplus

16 317 004 (2)

Arrears of contributions from previous financial periods

82 154 870 (3)

 

Total income

244 839 653   

Expenditure

163 537 412   

 

Excess of income over expenditure as at 31 October 1998

81 302 241   

Contributions of member States

3. Total assessed contributions for 1998 amount to 338,577,629 Swiss francs compared with 336,143,611(4) Swiss francs for 1997. Appendix I indicates that, at 31 October 1998, assessed contributions for 1998 received from or credited to member States(5) totalled 213,696,958 Swiss francs, which represented 63.1 per cent of the contributions assessed. At the same date in 1997, 61.8 per cent of the 1997 contributions had been collected. At 31 October 1998, some 81 member States had settled their 1998 contributions in full, 12 member States had made partial payments while 81 others had made no payments against 1998 contributions. This compared with 80, 18 and 76 member States in the same situation respectively at the same date in 1997.

4. Arrears of contributions received to 31 October 1998 totalled 119,946,110 Swiss francs, bringing total contributions collected to 31 October 1998 to 333,643,068 Swiss francs.

5. At 31 October, 11 States (Angola, Bahamas, Benin, Cape Verde, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, El Salvador, Gabon, Nicaragua, Panama, and Papua New Guinea) had made payments against their 1999 contributions.

Position in relation to paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution

6. Appendix II shows that, on 31 October 1998, the arrears of contributions of Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Moldova, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Yugoslavia equalled or exceeded the amount of the contributions due from them for the past two full years (1996-97). Each of these member States had therefore lost the right to vote, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution of the Organization, subject to the special arrangements described below.

7. Albania, Belarus, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Poland and Viet Nam were permitted to vote in accordance with paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution of the Organization under financial arrangements approved by the International Labour Conference at its 75th (1988), 78th (1991), 81st (1994), 82nd (1995), 85th (1997), 86th (1998) Sessions respectively.

Working Capital Fund

8. The nominal level and the cash level of the Working Capital Fund at 31 October 1998 both stood at 35 million Swiss francs.

Geneva, 6 November 1998.

Appendix I

Contributions received and outstanding
Details of movements between 31 December 1997 and 31 October 1998
(in Swiss francs)

Contributions and amounts outstanding

Assessed
Contributions
for 1998

Amountsreceivedorcredited
to 31 October 1998
in respect of

Balance due as at

State

as at
31December1997

%

Amount

1998 Contributions

(1)

Arrears

31 October 1998

A.

States which have settled their1998 contributions in full

Albania (3)

133'194

0.01

33'858

33'858

54'362

78'832

Angola

168'090

0.01

33'858

33'858

168'090

-

Australia

-

1.46

4'943'233

4'943'233

-

-

Austria

-

0.86

2'911'767

2'911'767

-

-

Bahamas

-

0.02

67'715

67'715

-

-

Bangladesh (2)

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Barbados

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Belarus (3)

3'154'923

0.27

914'159

914'159

157'746

2'997'177

Belgium

-

0.99

3'351'918

3'351'918

-

-

Belize

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Benin

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Botswana

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Canada (2)

-

3.07

10'394'333

10'394'333

-

-

Cape Verde (2) (3)

130'790

0.01

33'858

33'858

6'539

124'251

Chile

-

0.08

270'862

270'862

-

-

Colombia

-

0.10

338'577

338'577

-

-

Côte d'Ivoire

33'611

0.01

33'858

33'858

33'611

-

Cyprus

-

0.03

101'573

101'573

-

-

Czech Republic

-

0.25

846'444

846'444

-

-

Denmark (2)

-

0.71

2'403'901

2'403'901

-

-

Dominica

33'611

0.01

33'858

33'858

33'611

-

Egypt

-

0.08

270'862

270'862

-

-

El Salvador

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Eritrea

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Estonia

-

0.04

135'431

135'431

-

-

Ethiopia

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Fiji

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Finland

-

0.61

2'065'323

2'065'323

-

-

France

-

6.33

21'431'964

21'431'964

-

-

Gabon

73'576

0.01

33'858

33'858

73'576

-

Germany

-

8.93

30'234'982

30'234'982

-

-

Hungary

-

0.14

474'009

474'009

-

-

Iceland

-

0.03

101'573

101'573

-

-

India (2)

-

0.30

1'015'733

1'015'733

-

-

Indonesia (2)

-

0.14

474'009

474'009

-

-

Ireland

-

0.21

711'013

711'013

-

-

Italy

-

5.18

17'538'321

17'538'321

-

-

Jamaica

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Japan

-

15.43

52'242'528

52'242'528

-

-

Jordan

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Kenya

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Korea, Republic of

-

0.81

2'742'479

2'742'479

-

-

Kuwait

-

0.19

643'297

643'297

-

-

Luxembourg

-

0.07

237'004

237'004

-

-

Malaysia

-

0.14

474'009

474'009

-

-

Malta (2)

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Mexico

-

0.78

2'640'905

2'640'905

-

-

Morocco

-

0.03

101'573

101'573

-

-

Mauritius (2)

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Myanmar

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Namibia (2)

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Nepal

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Netherlands

-

1.57

5'315'669

5'315'669

-

-

New Zealand

-

0.24

812'586

812'586

-

-

Nicaragua

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Norway

-

0.55

1'862'177

1'862'177

-

-

Panama

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Papua New Guinea

32'693

0.01

33'858

33'858

32'693

-

Poland (3)

7'909'417

0.32

1'083'448

1'083'448

790'942

7'118'475

Portugal

-

0.27

914'159

914'159

-

-

Qatar

-

0.04

135'431

135'431

-

-

Romania

-

0.15

507'866

507'866

-

-

Saint Kitts and Nevis

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Saint Lucia

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

San Marino

-

0.01

33'858

33'858

-

-

Saudi Arabia

-

0.70

2'370'043

2'370'043

-

-

Singapore

-

0.14

474'009

474'009

-

-

Slovakia (2)

-

0.08

270'862

270'862

-

-

Slovenia

130'503

0.07

237'004

237'004

130'503

-

South Africa

-

0.31

1'049'590

1'049'590

-

-

Spain

-

2.35

7'956'574

7'956'574

-

-

Sri Lanka

-

0.01

33'858