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In his capacity as Rapporteur of the Advisory Committee, the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to ESCAP presented the highlights of the activities of the Committee during the preceding year.

Concern was expressed at the over-programming, but it was recognized that there had been considerable improvement in reducing over-programming compared to the previous year’s business plans.

I.33 The Secretary-General indicates that the Office continued to see an increase in its case workload in 2010: the number of cases received from the United Nations Secretariat rose to 1,206, reflecting a 70 per cent increase over the preceding year, and the integrated Office of the Ombudsman, which covers the Secretariat, the United Nations funds and UNHCR, handled a total of 1,745 cases in 2010 as compared with 1,287 in 2009 (ibid., para. 1.89).

Starting with 1 April 2008, by means of Government Decision No. 316 from 17.03.2008 on the update of the social insurance allowances and of certain state social allowances, the pensions, set by Law No. 909-XII from 30 January 1992 on social protection of the persons that suffered from the Chernobyl catastrophe have been increase with 17%, following the annual increase of the consumer prices indicator with 12.3% and the annual increase of the average country salary with 21.7%, whilst the update indicator of the state social allowances, set by Law No. 499-XIV from 14 July 1999 on state social allowances for certain categories of citizens, with the exception of the nursing allowance and the death allowance, was 12.3%, following the average annual increase of the consumer prices indicator for the preceding year.

For comparative purposes, certain last year’s segment figures were reclassified from the segment of “Property Investment and Management” to “Hospitality Investment and Management”.

Under P(I)O and WOP(I)O, if in any year, the average monthly CPI(A) of the period of 12 months beginning on 1 April of the previous year and ending on 31 March of the year in question exceeds the average monthly CPI(A) of the period of 12 months immediately preceding that period by more than 0.1%, the Chief Executive shall declare or specify a percentage of increase in the respective pensions equal to the excess expressed as a percentage as soon as practicable by notice in the Gazette.

The completion of the CFCs and HCFCs phase-out management plan and the associated Agreement will take place at the end of the year following the last year for which a maximum allowable total consumption has been specified in Appendix 2-A. Should at that time activities be still outstanding which were foreseen in the Plan and its subsequent revisions as per sub-paragraph 5(d) and paragraph 7, the completion will be delayed until the end of the year following the implementation of the remaining activities.

[...] obliged to submit an annual tax declaration [...]

For extrabudgetary resources, most projects are conceived and managed on a multi-year basis and the allotment issued in a given year includes the unused allotment carried forward from the previous year.

This year’s Note on International Protection reviews protection developments around key themes that have emerged over the last year.

Each State Party shall submit annually to the Implementation Support Unit a report for the preceding year concerning the transfer of arms, as detailed in section B, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the present Article, as well as any new national legislation or other measures used to regulate or control the items and transaction within the Treaty’s domain.

Over the previous year, the Committee had improved the coordination of ethics-related policies and activities within the Secretariat and the funds and programmes in order to ensure a coherent approach to the system-wide application of ethics.

However, in the absence of supporting evidence, the Board was unable to give reasonable assurance on the amount of prior-year adjustments reported in the financial statements and, consequently, on the value of the non-expendable property of UNEP.

In terms of regional use, the Teletrax monitoring system shows that 54 per cent of the pickup of UNifeed stories from the satellite transmission was from the Middle East, a 20 per cent increase compared to the previous year.

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According to Afghan officials, in 2010 the number of annual deaths caused by insurgent activities was over 50 per cent higher than in the previous year and civilian casualties rose by a third.

The latest general population surveys conducted in Belgium, Germany and Sweden suggest that the prevalence of past-year cocaine use has generally stabilized in those countries, while decreases were reported by the United Kingdom.

[...] the number of cases recorded showed an increase compared [...] [...]

Having launched its own Aid for Trade Strategy the previous year, the European Union remained committed to improving the quality and quantity of that mechanism and called on all other donors to take similar action.

[...] [...] to assess implementation of recommendations in audit reports that have an overall unsatisfactory [...]

(p) A positive development in reporting for 2011 is that many of the contractors have provided clarification in response to the Commission’s 2011 evaluation report and have made substantial progress towards being compliant with the Commission’s financial recommendations as contained in document ISBA/15/LTC/7.

Also in recalling the “Directive from the States Parties to the ISU” which tasked the ISU to report in written form as well as orally on the activities, functioning and finances of the ISU to each Meeting of the State Parties, and, to submit an audited annual financial report for the previous year and a preliminary annual financial report for the present year to the Coordinating Committee and subsequently to the 11MSP for approval, the Meeting approved the report on the activities and finances of the ISU, contained in Annex IV to this report, and the ISU’s 2010 audited financial statement.

During 2005-2009, the employment rate for persons aged 15 years and above followed an ascendant trend for each gender (excepting for 2009, when the employment rates decreased by 0.6-0.7 p.p., as against the previous year).

In a note dated 31 January 1974, the SecretaryGeneral requested that such notification should be made “in the form prescribed”, in other words, that it should be transmitted by one of the three authorities mentioned above; this notification took the form of a new communication (formulated in different terms than that of the preceding year), dated 30 May 1974 and signed this time by the Pakistani Prime Minister (see the pleadings by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht on behalf of Pakistan, 5 April 2000, CR/2000/3, and by A. Pellet on behalf of India, 6 April 2000, CR/2000/4).

Nominal interest rates remain considerably higher in the European emerging economies relative to the advanced economies; for example, the main Russian central bank rate only declined to 8.5 per cent in 2010 after 12 rate cuts over the previous year.

Despite similar challenges of rising costs and increased market competition, elevator wire rope products that are supplied predominantly to the domestic market in China achieved double-digit growth year-on-year in revenue and profitability terms — due in part to our leading market position, our excellent brand reputation and sound management.

The evaluation recommends a broader consultative approach to building the work programme, based on a review of the previous year’s work and a list of priorities identified by the PA in terms of policy advisory; training programmes; research papers; and technical assistance project formulation.