Annex IV: Trust Fund for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Approved revised 2017, approved 2018 and proposed 2019 budgets
(United States dollars)

	Cost category	Approved revised 2017	Approved 2018	Proposed 2019
1000	Employee salaries, allowances and benefits	1 483 072	1 512 734	1 542 989
1200	Consultants	85 000	85 000	85 000
Operating costs
1300	Meeting costs
1321	Conference services costs: Open-ended Working Group meetings	676 000	676 000	676 000
1322	Conference services costs: preparatory meetings and meetings of the parties	275 000	700 000	712 000
1323	Communication costs of Article 5 assessment panel members and organizational costs of panel meetings	70 000	70 000	70 000
1324	Conference services costs: Bureau meetings	25 000	25 000	25 000
1325	Conference services costs: Implementation Committee meetings	125 000	125 000	125 000
1326	Conference services costs: Montreal Protocol informal consultation meetings	10 000	0	0
5401	Hospitality	25 000	25 000	25 000
Subtotal, meeting costs		1 206 000	1 621 000	1 633 000
3300	Travel of Article 5 parties and experts
3301	Travel of Article 5 parties: assessment panel meetings	400 000	400 000	400 000
3302	Travel of Article 5 parties: preparatory meetings and meetings of the parties	375 000	375 000	375 000
3303	Travel of Article 5 parties: Open-ended Working Group meetings	325 000	325 000	325 000
3304	Travel of Article 5 parties: Bureau meetings	20 000	20 000	20 000
3305	Travel of Article 5 parties: Implementation Committee meetings	125 000	125 000	125 000
3306	Travel of Article 5 parties: informal meeting consultations	10 000	0	0
Subtotal, travel of Article 5 parties and experts		1 255 000	1 245 000	1 245 000
1600	Travel on official business
1601	Staff travel on official business	210 000	210 000	210 000
1602	Conference Services staff travel on official business	15 000	15 000	15 000
Subtotal, travel on official business		225 000	225 000	225 000
4100-5300	Other operating costs: supplies and consumables
4100	Expendable equipment	18 000	18 000	18 000
4200	Non-expendable equipment	25 000	25 000	25 000
4300	Rental of premises	41 870	41 870	41 870
5100	Operational and maintenance of equipment	20 000	20 000	20 000
5200	Reporting costs	75 000	75 000	75 000
5300	Sundry	120 000	40 000	40 000
Subtotal, other operating costs: supplies and consumables		299 870	219 870	219 870
Total direct costs		4 553 942	4 908 603	4 950 858
	Programme support costs (13 per cent)	592 012	638 118	643 612
Grand total		5 145 954	5 546 722	5 594 470

Explanatory notes for the proposed revision to the approved budget for 2017 and the proposed budgets for 2018 and 2019 of the Trust Fund for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Cost category	Budget line	Comment
Employee salaries, allowances and benefits	1000	The 2018 and 2019 costs have been increased by 2 per cent to allow for inflation. The posts of the Senior Administrative Officer (P5) and the Senior Administrative Assistant (G7) are funded by the programme support cost budget. The post of Communications and Information Officer (P-3) is funded fully from the Trust Fund for the Vienna Convention.
Consultants	1200	Consultants are used by the Secretariat for meetings research and facilitation of the workshop on safety standards to be held on 11 July 2017. The approved amount for 2017 has been maintained for 2018 and 2019.
Operating expenses		This section includes meetings costs, travel of Article 5 participants and hospitality.
	1300 1321	Meeting costs Open-ended Working Group meetings The figure for 2017 is presented as an average cost across five duty stations: Bangkok, Montreal, Nairobi, Paris and Vienna. The costs will be adjusted based on the venue of the meetings.
	1322	Preparatory meetings and Meetings of the Parties In 2017, the joint eleventh Conference of the Parties/Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Parties was hosted by the Government of Canada in Montreal. The meeting costs are reduced by $185,000, which represents the UNON cost estimate for interpretation services that was instead provided by the Government of Canada. In 2017, the meeting cost of the joint eleventh Conference of the Parties/Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Parties is shared with the Trust Fund for the Vienna Convention, which has a budget of $252,000. In 2018 and 2019, the full meeting cost will be charged to the Trust Fund for the Montreal Protocol. The 2017 costs are presented as an average cost across five duty stations: Bangkok, Montreal, Nairobi, Paris and Vienna. The costs will be adjusted based on the venue of the meetings and whether they are hosted by a party.
	1324	One Bureau meeting is scheduled for each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, with provision for interpretation and document translation into appropriate languages, depending on the membership of the Bureau. The proposed costs have remained the same as for the approved figures for 2017.
	1325	The proposed budgets for Implementation Committee meetings in 2018 and 2019 have remained the same as the approved figures for 2017.
	5401	The hospitality costs cover receptions at the meetings of the Open-ended Working Group and the Meetings of the Parties. Necessary funds may be transferred from the conference servicing budget lines should such services be required, either through individual consultancies or corporate contracts. The costs for 2018 and 2019 remain constant at the 2017 approved level.
	3300	Travel of Article 5 participants The participation of representatives of parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 in various Montreal Protocol meetings is budgeted at $5,000 per representative per meeting using the most appropriate and advantageous economy-class fare and United Nations daily subsistence allowances. The costs for 2018 and 2019 remain constant at the 2017 approved level.
		The Secretariat confirms that no funds from the budget lines in this section have been used to cover the cost of travel by representatives of non-Article 5 parties.
Travel on official business	1600	Travel on official business for 2018 and 2019 is maintained at the 2017 approved level.
Other operating costs: supplies and consumables	4100–5300	The section includes expendable equipment, non-expendable equipment and rental of office premises, reporting costs and sundry. The 2018 and 2019 proposed costs remain constant at the 2017 approved level, except for “Sundry”, which includes $10,000 for communication, $10,000 for freight, $10,000 for training and $10,000 for Ozone Day celebrations, which is increased to $90,000 in 2017 to cover an enhanced plan to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Montreal Protocol.