Sixth Committee (Legal) — 79th session
Programme planning (Agenda item 140)
The Committee, at its 5th meeting on 4 October 2024, concluded its consideration of the agenda item 140.
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Summary of work
Background (source: )
At its seventy-second session, under the item entitled “Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations”, the General Assembly approved the proposed change from a biennial to an annual budget period on a trial basis, beginning with the programme budget for 2020. The Assembly also decided that the proposed programme budget document would consist of three parts: (a) part I: the plan outline, which endorses the long-term priorities and the objectives of the Organization; (b) part II: the programme plan for programmes and subprogrammes and programme performance information; and (c) part III: the post and non-post resource requirements for the programmes and subprogrammes. It further decided that parts I and II would be submitted through the Committee for Programme and Coordination and part III through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions for the consideration of the Assembly. The Assembly reiterated that the Committee for Programme and Coordination and the Advisory Committee should examine the proposed programme budget in accordance with their respective mandates and, preserving the sequential nature of the review processes, submit their conclusions and recommendations to the Assembly for the final approval of the programme budget, and requested the Secretary-General to assess the impact of the changes to the budgetary cycle on the work of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the Assembly (resolution A).
At its seventy-seventh session, the Assembly decided to lift the trial period effective from 2023 and requested the Secretary-General to continue with the submission of the programme budget according to an annual cycle (resolution ).
At its seventy-eighth session, the Assembly reiteratedthat whenever the Committee for Programme and Coordination cannot provide conclusions and recommendations on a given subprogramme or programme of the proposed programme budget, the plenary or the relevant Main Committee or Main Committees of the Assembly responsible for those mandates would consider the said subprogramme or programme at the very start of its session in order to provide any conclusions and recommendations to the Fifth Committee, at the earliest opportunity, and no later than four weeks after the start of the session, for timely consideration by the Fifth Committee (resolution ).
Archived videos and summaries of plenary meetings
(4 October 2024, 10:00am – 1:00pm) | Summary
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee:
- GA decision: 79/525 [for the text of the decision, see the Sixth Committee's report to the General Assembly]
