WORLD
HEALTH
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ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE
D E LA S A N T E
EXECUTIVE BOARD
EB29/AP/MÍII/8 R e v . l
1 March 1962
Twenty-ninth Session
ORIGINAL:
ENGLISH
STANDING COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION A N D FINANCE
MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH MEETING
Palais des N a t i o n s , Geneva
T h u r s d a y , 18 January 19б2, at 2.30 p . m .
CHAIRMAN:
Dr H . v a n Zile HÏDE
CONTEÎWS
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Approval of the preliminary report of the S t a n d i n g Committee to
the E x e c u t i v e B o a r d
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Eighth Meeting
Thursday 5 l8 January 1962，at 2 Q 0
p.m.
Designating Country
Present
Dr H . v a n Zile H Y D E , Chairman and Rapporteur
United States of America
Dr A . NABULSI, Rapporteur
Jordan
D r D . BAIDYA
Nepal
D r D . CASTILLO
Venezuela
D r J . D . HOURIHANE
Ireland
Professor M . KACPRZAK
Poland
Dr L , H . MURRAY (alternate t o Dr G , E . Godber)
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
D r T ^ OMURA
Japan
D r J . E d je i SCHANDORF
Ghana
D r A . 0 . ABU SHAMMA (Chairman of the
Executive Boar?d).
Sudan
Secretary:
M r M . P . SIEGEL
Assistant Director-General
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APPROVAL OF THE PRELIMINAEY REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE TO THE EXECUTIVE
BOARD: Item 9. of the Agenda (Documents E B 2 9 / A P / W P / H and EB29/AP/WP/IO Add.l
and Add.l Corr.l)
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the Secretariat on the speed and efficiency with
w h i c h the draft preliminary report had been produced.
He suggested that the
Committee examine the report (document E B 2 9 / A F / W P / H ) chapter by chapter a n d , in the
case of Chapters IV and V， paragraph by paragraph.
It was so a g r e e d .
Introduction
The CHAIRMAN noted that Dr Baidya was now present and welcomed h i m .
The list
of participants contained in the Introduction would be amended accordingly.
Chapter 工
There were. no comments on Chapter I .
Chapter II
There were no comments on Chapter 工I.
Chapter III
The CHAIRMAN said that the reference in the footnote on page 3 2 should be t o
Appendix 4 .
In the final printed version of the report, the charts (now appended to the
document) would fall into their proper place in the t e x t .
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Chapter IV
The CHAIRMAN called attention to the introductory* paragraph 一 important because
i t explained w h y the figures that the Coirimittee h a d examined w e r e d i f f e r e n t from
those in Official Records N o . 113.
Part 1
The CHAIRMAN pointed out a clerical error in the first line of paragraph Is
"Appendices 1 a n d 3" should read "Appendices 1 a n d
A g a i n , in paragraph 9
(page 47)，"Annexes 1 to 6" should read "Annexes 1 to
Part 2
The CHAIRMAN read out the note a t the beginning of P a r t 2 ， w h i c h explained that
whereas the references in the f o l l o w i n g paragraphs referred t o Official Records 113，
w h i c h s e t out the programme p r o p o s a l s , the budget figures relating thereto were those
that had been amended to take account of t h e total estimates of expenditure for 1963^
including the additional requirements reported separately b y the Dire с to r-Gene ral^
and -that the 1 9 6 2 estimates w i t h w h i c h they were compared w e r e as r e v i s e d by the
supplementary estimates f o r that y e a r .
He suggested that a reference b e made to
A p p e n d i x 1 of the report，where the revised estimates could be founds
It w a s so a g r e e d .
In r e p l y to a q u e s t i o n b y D r SCHANDORF in connexion w i t h paragraph 1 5 (which gave
the increases a n d decreases in the estimates f o r sessions of regional committees),
the CHAIRMAN said t h a t sessions held elsewhere usually cost m o r e t h a n those h e l d a t
regional headquarters•
The members of one R e g i o n - the ¥estern Pacific - had come
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to a n understanding by which the host country paid all the extra e x p e n s e s .
That was
not so in all the regions, h o w e v e r , and there were consequently fluctuations in the
estimates•
The CHAIRMAN drew attention to a typing error in paragraph 45 (page 6 ) ) ,
penultimate sentence:
the approximate number of subscribers to the Digest was 5 0 0 ,
not 1 0 0 .
In connexion w i t h paragraphs 54 to 62 (pages 66-81), D r HOURIHANE recalled that
the information they contained h a d originally been presented, at his request, in
/ 1 '
working paper ЕВ29/Z\f/wp/8.
The material was very interesting and he thought it
might be somewhat buried in its present position in the r e p o r t .
Perhaps it might be
circulated to the Executive Board as a separate document?
The CHAIRMAN agreed w i t h that suggestion;
the document could t h e n , if necessary,
?
be annexed to Part 工 of the B o a r d s r e p o r t .
The SECRETARY suggested that a more effective way of ensuring that the material
w a s read would be for the C h a i r m a n , w h e n presenting the Standing Committee's r e p o r t ,
to draw special attention to the paragraphs in question*
The Board already had a
mass a documentation before i t .
D r W A T T , alternate to Dr van Zile H y d e , said that he had found document
E B 2 9 / A F / W P / 8 , w i t h the annexed catalogue of W H O publications, very interesting
reading.
He thought the Board would t o o .
Professor KACPRZAK wondered whether the Organization w a s not trying to cover too
many subjects with its expert committees, and whether it should not concentrate on a
smaller n u m b e r ,
1
The substance of this working document is incorporated in Chapter I V , paras 65-126,
a n d Appendices 11 and 1 2 , of Off. R e c • W l d H l t h O r g . 1 1 6 .
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T h e CHAIRMAN suggested that he might w i s h t o raise the question in the B o a r d ,
since it was one of substance.
W i t h regard t o the circulation of document E B 2 9 / A F / W P / 8 , the SECRETARY thought
t h a t , since a majority of the members of the B o a r d already had the working paper in
!
q u e s t i o n (a good number of them had been present at the Standing C o m m i t t e e s discussions) , i t might be sufficient to circulate it to the remaining members•
T h e CHAIRMAN said it should be possible to distinguish it in the Standing
Committee's report by giving it a separate h e a d i n g .
Dr HOURIHANE emphasized that his intention in asking for the information given
in the working paper had been to establish the coherent plan behind the convening of
expert committee meetings:
the heading in question might be "History (or constitution)
of expert committees"•
The CHAIRMAN suggested that the title of the working paper should be used:
"Pattern of development of W H O expert committees and related s t u d i e s " .
It was so a g r e e d .
Some discussion took place on the matter of the renumbering of the paragraphs
originally forming part of the working p a p e r .
It was agreed that if any renumbering were required in connexion
w i t h the
T
insertion of a new h e a d i n g , this could be done w h e n the B o a r d s report was
prepared for p r i n t i n g .
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T w o amendments to be made to paragraph 1 0 0 , last sentence, were pointed out， by
D r HOURIHANE and the CHAIRMAN respectively:
”instillation"；
the w o r d "installation" should read
and it should be specified that the Pasteur Institute in question
was the Pasteur Institute in B r a z z a v i l l e .
The CHAIRMAN recalled that material from working paper EB29/AP/WP/IO
(Development
of the UNICEF/WHO-as S is t E d Maternal and Child Health Project in Y u g o s l a v i a ) , which h a d
f
been prepared at the Committee s request by the Regional Director for E u r o p e , was
included in paragraphs
The Regional Director had since drafted a n addendum
to document EB29/AP/WP/IO which the Committee w o u l d presumably w i s h to a d d .
It was agreed that material from document EB29/AF/lj/p/lO A d d . l and A d d . l Corr.l
should replace paragraphs
of the r e p o r t .
Dr HOURIHANE noted the absence of a reference to the seminar on h e a l t h services
in the E u r o p e a n Region w h i c h , he had u n d e r s t o o d , would also devote attention to
physical deficiencies in children, including children who were hard of h e a r i n g .
It was agreed that he should draft a sentence or two covering that point for the
report•
Part 3
There w a s no comment on Part 3 of Chapter I V .
Chapter V
The CHAIRMAN drew particular attention to the "Notes for the Executive Board"
(first paragraph of the Chapter)^ w h i c h w o u l d of course disappear w h e n the Board： had
1
added the Standing Committee s report t c its o w n .
The notes drew attention to the
1 The substance of these documents is incorporated in Chapter I V , paras 2 1 5 - 2 2 7 ,
of O f f . R e c . W l d H l t h O r g . 1 1 6 .
E B 2 9 / A P / M i n / 8 rev.l
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T
fact that certain items of the B o a r d s agenda (e.g. item 7 . 6 , on salaries and allowances of internationally recruited staff) might have a bearing on the DirectorGeneralas proposed programme and budget estimates for I 9 6 3 .
The contents and the
amounts in Chapter V were therefore subject to the decisions which the B o a r d might
take on those items.
The SECRETARY said that the second part of paragraph 1 (pages 0 1 ) 4 )
might give
the impression that the revised salaries and allowances of internationally recruited
staff were subject to the approval of the W o r l d Health A s s e m b l y , which w a s not the c a s e ,
since those revised scales had. gone into effect on 1 January 1 9 6 2 ,
The Health
Assembly w o u l d be asked to approve not the specific revision of salary scales, but
the size of the b u d g e t .
The CHAIRMAN said that subparagraph (iii) of paragraph 1 indicated that the
Director-General had recommended that the increase in salaries and allowances should
apply to W H O staff beginning on 1 January 1 9 6 2 , and that supplementary estimates were
presented to cover the increase.
He thought that the paragraph might be amended to
give the position as it now s t o o d , w i t h a reference to Staff Regulation
1
constituted the Director-General s
which
authority.
It w a s agreed that the Rapporteurs and the Secretary should redraft the paragraph,
which could then be approved by the Standing Committee w h e n the report came before
the B o a r d .
D r HOURIHANE said that a point to which he had referred in the discussion - the
increase of fifty痛one per c e n t , in the budget - was mentioned in paragraph 9 (page 139) •
H e hoped that the comparative length of the analysis of that increase (contained in the
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same paragraph) would not imply any intention on his part to suggest that there was
something irregular about such a n i n c r e a s e .
It had been no part of his intention t o
do more than state the fact •
He suggested also that the last sentence of the paragraph required amendment•
It was agreed that the last sentence of paragraph 9 should be amended to read:
”This leaves a balance of increase in 1 9 6 ) directly related to programme expansion compared to I96I of $ 2 848 8 7 ^ , or 1ЛЛ0 per c e n t . " .
The CHAIRMAN pointed out that the figures for casual income given in paragraph 11
(third line) should be amended to read:
" 1 9 5 0 4 0 representing assessments on Members
from previous years and $ 304 960 representing estimated miscellaneous
income".•
In paragraph 2.0, third l i n e , the reference to "Annex 2" should be to "Annexes 2
and 3" •
Appendices
The CHAIRMAN said that in A p p e n d i x
last p a g e , under 1 9 6 ) estimated expenditure,
the figures for casual income should be corrected as they had been in paragraph 11 of
Chapter V ;
in Appendix 2 a footnote was missing from the E n g l i s h text;
in Appendix 1 2 ,
table 3 had been omitted from the French t e x t .
He asked if members of the Committee h a d any further comments on the preliminary
report•
M r S A I T O , alternate to Dr O m u r a , asked what was the present status of the AssemblySuspense Account and what implications its size would have for the coming financial year»
M r SIEGEL said that the amount in the Assembly Suspense A c c o u n t as a t 3 1 December
I96I had made it possible for the Director «General to suggest that some $ 1 ООО 000 to
finance to supplementary estimates for 1962 could be t a k e n , in the m a i n , from that
account (a small part could be drawn from Miscellaneous Income):
that proposal was
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being submitted to the Health Assembly.
Two further proposals would come before
the Board • to transfer capital from the Account to the Léon Bernard Fund and to the
Darling F u n d , so that with the interest earned those two awards could be made annually
if desired.
There would still be enough left in the Account to make $ 5〇〇 000
available as Casual Income to finance the 1963 budget, should the Assembly so desire.
If funds were withdrawn from the Assembly Suspense Account to finance all the
above proposals there would remain 一 he had not the exact figure to hand - something
less than $ 50 000.
Decision: The Committee adopted its preliminary report, as amended in the
course of discussion.
The CHAIRMAN thanked members of the Committee for their w o r k , and referred in
particular to the advantage gained from having members of the Board present at the
f
Committee s discussions•
M r R0PFEY> alternate to Dr Murray, expressed the thanks of the Committee to the
Chairman,
The meeting rose at ^>Л5
WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE
DE LA SANTE
EXECUTIVE BOARD
EB29/AF/Min/8
18 January 1962
Twenty-ninth Session
ORIGINAL:
ENGLISH
STANDING COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
PROVISIONAL MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH MEETING
Palais des Mations, Geneva
Thursday, IB January 1962, at 2.30 p . m .
CHAIRMAN:
Dr H . van Zile HYDE
CONTENTS
Page
Preliminary report of the Standing Committee to the Executive Board .. •
t
Notes
Corrections to these provisional minutes should be submitted in writing to
the Chief, Records Service, Room Аг>280> within 48 hours of their distribution
or as soon as possible thereafter e
EB29/AF/ÍVIinA
page 2
Eighth Meeting
Thursday，IB January 1 9 6 2 ， a t 2,3〇 p.m>
Designating Country
Present
D r H . van Zile H Y D E , Chairman and Rapporteur
United States of America
D r A . N A B Ü L S I , Rapporteur
Jordan
D r D . BAIDYA
Nepal
Dr D . CASTHIO
Venezuela
D r L .H . MURRAY (alternate to Dr G . E . Godber)
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
D r J . D . HOURIHANE
Ireland
Professor M . KACPRZAK
Poland
D r T . OMÜRA
Japan
D r J / A d j e i SCHANDORF
Ghana
D r A - 0 . A B U SHAMMA (Chairman of the
Executive Board)
Sudan
Secretary:
Mr M . P . SIEGEL
A s s i s t a n t Director-General
EB29/AF/ÍVIinA
page 3
PRELIMIMâRY REPORT OF THE STAND BIG COMMITTEE TO THE EXECUTIVE ЮАШ) (Documents
EB29/AFAJP/11 and E B 2 9 / A F A P / 1 0 A D D A and A d d . l Corr.l)
...
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the Secretariat on the speed and efficiency.with
which the draft preliminary report had been produced.
He suggested that the
Committee examine the report (document EB29/AF/WP/11) chapter by chapter a n d , in the
case of Chapters IV and V , paragraph by paragraph.
It was so agreed.
Introduction
The CHAIRMAN noted that Dr Baidya was now present and welcomed h i m .
The list
of participants contained in the Introduction would be amended accordingly»
Chapter I
There were no coirmients on Chapter I.
Chapter II
There were no comments on Chapter I I .
Chapter III
The CHAIRMAN said that the reference in the footnote on page 32 should be to
Appendix
In the final printed version of the r e p o r t , the charts (now appended to the
document) would fall into their proper place in the text.
page 4
Chapter IV
The CHA.IEMN called attention to the introductory paragraph - important because
it explained w h y the figures t h a t the Comrriittee had examined w e r e d i f f e r e n t from
those in Official Records N o , 113.
Fart 1
The CHAIRMAN pointed o u t a clerical error in the first line of paragraph 1:
"Appendices 1 a n d 3" should r e a d "Appendices 1 a n d 4 " .
A g a i n , in paragraph 9
(page 47)，"Annexes 1 to 6" should read "Annexes 1 to 5"»
Part 2
The CHAIRMAN read out the note a t the beginning of P a r t 2> which explained that
w h e r e a s the references in t h e f o l l o w i n g paragraphs referred t o Official Records 113^
w h i c h s e t out the programme p r o p o s a l s , the budget figures relating thereto w e r e those
that h a d been amended to take a c c o u n t of t h e total estimates of expenditure for 1963^
including the additional requirements reported separately b y the Director-General,
and that the 1962 estimates w i t h w h i c h they w e r e compared w e r e as revised by the
supplementary estimates for that y e a r .
He suggested that a reference be made to
A p p e n d i x 1 of the report，where the revised estimates could be f o u n d .
It w a s so agreed>
In r e p l y t o a q u e s t i o n b y D r SCHANDORF in connexion w i t h paragraph 1 5 (which gave
the increases and decreases in the estimates for sessions of regional committees) y
the CHAIRMAN said t h a t sessions held elsewhere usually cost m o r e t h a n those h e l d at
r e g i o n a l headquarters •
The members of one Region - the Western Pacific - had come
EB29/AF A ü n / 8
page 5
to a n understanding by -ràiich the h o s t country paid a l l the extra expenses•
That w a s
n o t so i n # a l l the regions, h o w e v e r , and t h e r e w e r e consequently fluctuations in the
estimates•；
The CHAIRMAJi drew attention to a typing error in paragraph 45 (page 6 3 ) ，
penultimate sentence:
the approximate number of subscribers to the D i g e s t w a s 500,
not 100•
In connexion w i t h paragraphs 54- to 62 (pages 66-81)，L)r ШШШШмЕ recalled
that the information they contained h a d originally b e e n p r e s e n t e d ， a t his r e q u e s t ,
in w o r k i n g paper EB29/AF/!A/P/8#
The rnaterial w a s v e r y interesting and he thought it
m i g h t b e s o m e w h a t buried in its present position in the r e p o r t
Perhaps i t might b e
circulated to the Executive Board as a separate document?
The CHAIRMAN agreed w i t h that suggestion;
the document could t h e n , if necessary^
!
be annexed to P a r t 工 oí* t h e B o a r d s report»
The S E C R E T A R ! suggested t h a t a m o r e effective w a y of e n s u r i n g t h a t the material
f
w a s read w o u l d be for t h e Chairman, w h e n presenting the Standing Committee s report，
to draw special attention to the paragraphs in q u e s t i o n .
The Board already h a d a
mass o f documentation b e f o r e i t .
M r W A T T , alternate to D r v a n Zile Ifyde, s a i d t h a t h e h a d f o u n d document
EB29/AF/«iP/8, w i t h "the annexed catalogue o f "WHO p u b l i c a t i o n s , very interesting r e a d i n g .
He thought the Board w o u l d t o o .
D r KACPRZAK w o n d e r e d w h e t h e r the Organization was n o t tiying to cover too manysubjects w i t h its expert committees，and w h e t h e r i t should not concentrate on a smaller
rmiriber •
J-i_J
j ¡
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page 6
T h e C H A I R M N suggested t h a t he m i g h t w i s h to raise the question in the B o a r d ,
since i t was one of substance»
W i t h regard to the circulation of d o c u m e n t E B 2 9 / A F / W p / 8 , the SECRETARY
thou�t
that，since a majority of the members of t h e Board already h a d the w o r k i n g paper in
question (a good number of t h e m had b e e n present a t t h e Standing
!
Committee s
discussions)^ it m i g h t be s u f f i c i e n t to circulate i t to the remaining m e m b e r s .
The CHAIRMAN said i t should b e possible t o distinguish i t i n the Standing
T
C o m m i t t e e s r e p o r t by giving it a separate h e a d i n g .
D r HOURIHANE emphasized that his intention i n asking for the information given
in the "working paper h a d b e e n to establish the coherent p l a n behind the convening of
e x p e r t committee meetings:
the h e a d i n g in q u e s t i o n m i g h t be "History (or constitution)
of expert committees".
The C H â l R M N suggested t h a t the title o f the w o r k i n g p a p e r should be used:
"Pattern of development of W H O expert committees and related studies".
It w a s so a g r e e d .
Some discussion t o o k place on the matter of the renumberirg of the paragraphs
originally forming part of t h e working p a p e r ,
It was agreed that if any renumbering w e r e required in connexion
w i t h the
1
insertion o f a new heading，this could b e done "when the B o a r d s r e p o r t w a s
prepared for p r i n t i n g .
Two amendments to b e m a d e to paragraph 1 0 0 , last sentence^ w e r e pointed o u t , by
D r HOURIHANE and the CHAIRMAN respectively:
"instillation"j
the TOrd "installation" should read
and i t should be specified t h a t the Pasteur Institute in question w a s
the Pasteur Institute in B r a z z a v i l l e .
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The CHAIRMâN recalled that material from woricing paper EB29/AF/№/L〇，whidi had
been prepared at the Committee 's request b y the Regional Director for Europe^ w a s
included in paragraphs 143-143«5«
The Regional Director had since drafted an
addendum to document EB29/AF/toylO which the Committee would presumably wish to add.
參
*
It was agreed that material from document ЕВ29/АГДЛРД0 Add.l and Add.l Corr.l
should replace paragraphs 1ДЗ-143•5 of the report.
Dr HOURIHANE noted the absence of a reference to the seminar on health services
in the European Region w h i c h , he had understood, would also devote attention to
physical d.eficiènces in children, including children who were hard of hearing»
It w a s agreed that he should draft a sentence or t^o covering that point for
the report•
Part 3
There was no comment on Part 3 of Chapter IV.
Chapter V
The CHAIRMAN drew particular attention to the "Notes for the Executive Board"
(first paragraph of the Chapter), which would of course disappear when the Board had
added the Standing Committee!s report to its own.
The notes drew attention to the
1
fact that certain items of the Board s agenda (e.g. item 7*6.，on salaries and
allowances of internationally recruited staff) might have a bearing on the DirectorGeneralas proposed programme and budget estimates for 1963•
The contents and the
amounts in Chapter V were therefore subject to the decisions which the Board might
take on those items.
一
娜
EB29/AFAîin/8
page 8
The SECRETARY said t h a t the second p a r t of paragraph 1 (pages 133-134) m i g h t
give the impression t h a t the ire v i s e d salaries and allowances of internationally
1
recruited staff w e r e subject t o the a p p r o v a l of the World Health A s s e m b l y , w h i c h w a s
n o t the c a s e , since those revised scales h a d gone ±ato effect on 1 January 1962•
The H e a l t h Assembly w o u l d b e a s k e d to approve n o t the specific revision of salary
s c a l e s , b u t the size of the b u d g e t •
The GRklBMAN said
that s u b p a r a g r a p h (iii) of paragraph 1 indicated that the
Dire с tor-General had recommended t h a t the increase in salaries and allowances should
a p p l y to W H O staff and t h a t supplementary estimates w e r e presented to cover the
increase•
He thought that the paragraph might be amended to give the position as it
now s t o o d , w i t h a reference to Staff Regulation 3 * 2 ， w h i c h constituted the Director!
Gene r a l s authority •
It w a s agreed that the Rapporteurs and t h e Secretary should redraft the paragraph^
w h i c h could then b e approved by the Standing Committee w h e n the r e p o r t came before
the Board.
D r HOURIHANE said that a p o i n t to w h i c h h e had referred in the discussion - the
increase of fifty-one p e r cent, in the b u d g e t - was m e n t i o n e d in paragraph 9 (page 1 3 9 )
He hoped that the comparative length of the analysis of that increase (contained in the
same paragraph) would n o t imply any intention on his p a r t to suggest t h a t there was
something irregular a b o u t such an increase•
do more than state the f a c t .
‘
It had been no p a r t of his intention to
.
He. suggested also t h a t the l a s t sentence of the paragraph required amendment•
It was agreed that the l a s t sentence of paragraph 9 should be amended to read:
”This leaves a balance of Increase in 1963 directly related to programme expansion
compared to 1 9 6 1 of $ 2 848 8 7 4 , or 1Д.Д0 per cent.".
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page 9
The CHAIRMA.N pointed out that the figures for casual income given in paragraph
1 1 (third line) should be amended to read:
"195 040 representing assessments on
Members from previous years and $ 304 960 representing estimated miscellaneous
income
In paragraph 20， third line， the reference to "Annex 2" should be to
"Annexes 2 and
Appendices
The CHAIRMAN said t h a t in Appendix
last p a g e , under 1963 estimated expenditure^
the figures for casual income should be corrected as they h a d b e e n in paragraph 11 of
Chapter Vj
in Appendix 2 a footnote w a s missing from the English textj
in Appendix
12，table 3 h a d been omitted from the French t e x t .
He asked if members of the Committee had any further comments on the preliminary
report.
.
Mr S A I T O , alternate to Dr Omura^ asked w h a t was the present status of the
Assembly Suspense Account and w h a t implications its size -would have for the coming
financial y e a r .
Mr SIEGEL said that the amount in the Assembly Suspense Account as a t
3 1 December 1 9 6 1 had m a d e it possible for the Director-General to suggest that some
$ 1 000 000 to finance the supplementary estimates for 1962 could b e t a k e n , in the
m a i n , from that account (a small part could be drawn from Miscellaneous Income):
proposal was being submitted to the Health A s s e m b l y ,
that
Two further proposals would
come before the Board - to transfer capital from, the Account to the Léon Bernard Fond
a n d to the Darling F u n d , so that with the interest earned those two awards could be
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m a d e annually if desired•
There w o u l d s t i l l b e enough left in the A c c o u n t to m a k e
$ 500 000 available as C a s u a l Income t o finance the I963 b u d g e t , should the Assembly
so d e s i r e .
If funds w e r e w i t h d r a w n from the A s s e m b l y Suspense A c c o u n t to finance a l l the
above proposals there w o u l d remain - he had n o t the exact figure to hand - something
less t h a n $ 5〇 0 0 0 .
Decision: The Cornmittee adopted its preliminary r e p o r t , as amended in t h e
course o f d i s c u s s i o n .
The CHAIRMAN thanked m e m b e r s of the Committee f o r their w o r k , and r e f e r r e d in
p a r t i c u l a r to the advantage gained from having m e m b e r s of t h e Board present a t the
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Committee s d i s c u s s i o n s ,
Mr ROFFEY^ alternate t o D r Murray^ expressed t h e thanks of the Committee to the
Chairman,
The meeting rose a t 3 ^ 4 5 рм