Interpol - General Assembly
73rd Session - Cancún, 5 - 8 October 2004 |
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| Resolution No AG-2004-RES-03 |
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Amendment of the Financial Regulations
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The ICPO-Interpol General Assembly, meeting in Cancún from 5 to 8 October
2004 at its 73rd session:
BEARING IN MIND Article
8(g) of the Constitution, under the terms of which it is competent to determine
the financial policy of the Organization,
ALSO BEARING IN MIND Articles
51 and 55
of the General Regulations, under the terms of which it is competent to approve
any modifications to the Financial Regulations by a two-thirds majority in conformity
with Article
44 of the Constitution,
HAVING STUDIED Report
AG-2004-RAP-02
entitled 'Amendment of the Financial Regulations',
HAVING HEARD the opinion given by the ad hoc Committee set up in application
of Article
56 of the Organization's General Regulations,
APPROVES the conclusions given in Report
AG-2004-RAP-02
concerning the need to amend the Financial Regulations, particularly with regard
to clarifying the framework for contributions to the budgets of the Sub-Regional
Bureaus as well as for the debt rescheduling scheme;
DECIDES, therefore, to amend Articles 1,
3,
4,
8,
10
and 11
of the Financial Regulations as they read in the appendix to the present Resolution;
FURTHER DECIDES that these amendments shall take effect on 1 January 2005.
Adopted with 91 votes in favour,
1 against, and with 1 abstention.
The budget shall comprise:
- the general budget and the specific budgets;
- all income and expenditure, whatever its origin and source;
- all financing and allocation operations.
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Members' statutory contributions to the Organization's
general budget are due annually and are compulsory. |
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| 3.2 |
The annual statutory contribution of Members shall represent
a percentage of the general budget of the Organization. |
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| 3.3 |
Statutory contributions to the Organization's general
budget are distributed among Members on the basis of their ability to pay. |
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| 3.4 |
The procedures and scale used to determine the distribution
of contributions to the Organization's general budget shall be adopted
by the General Assembly by a two-thirds majority. |
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| 3.5 |
The statutory contributions paid by member countries to
the specific budgets for Sub-Regional Bureaus are due annually and
are compulsory. |
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| 3.6 |
The contribution to the budget of Sub-Regional Bureaus
shall be distributed among the member countries concerned, without prejudice
to the financial commitments of the host country. |
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| 3.7 |
Notwithstanding Article 16.2 of the present Rules, any
partial payment made by a Member shall be set, pro rata, against
the amount due as the statutory contribution towards the general budget,
and against the amount due as the statutory contribution to the specific
budget intended to fund the Sub-Regional Bureau concerned. |
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| 3.8 |
Unless specifically stated otherwise, any other payment
shall be considered to be a voluntary contribution. Permanent voluntary
contributions may be the subject of a specific agreement between the donating
country and the Organization. |
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| 3.9 |
Statutory contributions that are due when a Member withdraws
from the Organization shall remain due. |
| 4.7 |
A Member's debt may be partially cancelled in the context
of a debt-rescheduling agreement concluded with the Organization
in conformity with the terms of the present Article. To this end, the
debt shall be partially suspended during the implementation period of the
agreement. However, the suspended debt shall again become due
if the Member fails to fulfill its obligations arising from the rescheduling
agreement, or does not promptly pay the statutory contributions called up
during the period in which the rescheduled debt is being paid off. |
| 8.1 |
The budget document shall necessarily consist, for
the general budget and the specific budgets, of the following sections:
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| 10.1 |
Following proposals from the Executive Committee, the
General Assembly shall:
- decide the total budget and establish the scale of
distribution for statutory contributions due for the general budget,
- approve the draft budget and accompanying documents
referred to in Article 8.
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| 11.2 |
The Secretary General may, with the prior approval of
the Executive Committee, transfer appropriations from one programme to another,
and transfer credits from the general budget to a specific budget, and
vice versa. |
