Agenda Item 131 |
United Nations common system |
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The General Assembly, by its resolution 3042 (XXVII) of 19 December 1972, decided in principle to establish an international civil service commission for the regulation and coordination of the conditions of service of the United Nations common system. By its resolution 3357 (XXIX) of 18 December 1974, the General Assembly approved the statute of the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC). The United Nations common system comprises 13 organizations that have accepted the Commission's statute and that participate in the United Nations common system of salaries and allowances. Other organizations have not formally accepted the statute but fully participate in the Commission's work and/or apply the common system of salaries, allowances and benefits. Under its statute, the Commission is required to submit an annual report to the Assembly, which is also to be transmitted to the governing organs of the other organizations of the common system, through their executive heads.
At its fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the Commission to inform the Assembly at its sixtieth session as to the practices of other relevant civil services and international organizations concerning the provision of education grants; also requested the Commission to inform the Assembly at its sixtieth session on which entities it used as comparators for the determination of entitlements; and requested the Secretary-General to redesignate the Senior Management Service to reflect its character as a set of collaborative efforts to enhance the managerial capacity and performance of senior staff by respective executive heads and to report to the Assembly at its sixtieth session (resolution 59/268).
At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in April 2005, the General Assembly decided to consider during its sixtieth session, as a matter of priority, the question of the strengthening of the international civil service (decision 59/561).
During the main part of the sixtieth session, the General Assembly in its decision 60/551 decided to defer to the resumed part of the sixtieth session the consideration of agenda item 131: United nations common system. |
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(a) Report of the International Civil Service Commission for 2005: Supplement No. 30 (A/60/30);
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(b) Note by the Secretary-General, entitled "Senior Management Network", on the redesignation of the Senior Management Service to reflect its character as a set of collaborative efforts to enhance the managerial capacity and performance of senior staff (resolution 59/268) (A/60/209); |
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| (c) Report of the Secretary-General on the administrative and financial implications of the decisions and recommendations contained in the report of the International Civil Service Commission (see also agenda item 125); |
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| (d) Report of the Secretary-General on new contractual arrangements (General Assembly resolutions 57/305. para 58. and 59/266, sect.X) A/59/263/Add.1 |
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| (e) Note by the Secretary-General on the report of the Panel on the Stregnthening of the International Civil SErvice (General Assembly resolutions 57/285, sect. IV, para.4 and 59/268, sect IV ), A/59/399 |
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References |
For the fifty-ninth session (agenda item 116) |
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Report of the International Civil Service Commission for 2004: Supplement No. 30 (A/59/30) (Vols. I and II) |
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| Report of the Secretary-General conveying the views of the organizations of the United Nations system on the findings and recommendations of the Panel on the Strengthening of the International Civil Service (A/59/399) |
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| Statement submitted by the Secretary-General in accordance with rule 153 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly concerning the administrative and financial implications of the decisions and recommendations contained in the report of the International Civil Service Commission for 2004 (A/59/429) (also relates to item 108) |
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| Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the statement submitted by the Secretary-General concerning the administrative and financial implications of the decisions and recommendations contained in the report of the International Civil Service Commission for 2004 (A/59/522) (also relates to item 108) |
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| Note by the Secretariat submitting the report of the Panel on the Strengthening of the International Civil Service (A/59/153) |
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Summary records |
A/C.5/59/SR.14, 17, 33 and 42 |
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Report of the Fifth Committee |
A/59/647 and Add.1 |
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Plenary meetings |
A/59/PV.76 and 91 |
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Resolution |
59/268 |
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Decision |
59/561 |
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