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Background Information: On the Agenda Items for Consideration by the Fifth Committee During the Main Part of the sixtieth session

Agenda Item 133	Administration of justice at the United Nations
	The appeals process
	At its fifty-fifth session, in 2001, under the item entitled "Human resources management", the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it on an annual basis on the outcome of the work of the Joint Appeals Board (resolution 55/258, sect. XI, para. 5). At its resumed fifty-seventh session, in April 2003, under the item entitled "Administration of justice at the United Nations", the General Assembly welcomed the Secretary-General's initiative in requesting the Office of Internal Oversight Services to conduct a management review of the appeals process, requested the Secretary-General to ensure that the management review covered particular areas of the appeals process and requested the Secretary-General to develop an effective system of personal responsibility and accountability to recover financial losses to the Organization caused by management irregularities, wrongful actions or gross negligence of officials of the United Nations Secretariat that resulted in judgements of the Administrative Tribunal, and to report thereon to the Assembly at its fifty-eighth session (resolution 57/307). No advance documentation is expected. At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in April 2005, the General Assembly decided that the time limits recommended by the Office of Internal Oversight Services would be mandatory within the appeals process once adequate capacity was in place, and no later than 1 January 2006; requested the Secretary-General to proceed with the transfer of the responsibility for formulating decisions on appeals from the Department of Management of the Secretariat to the Office of the Secretary-General; decided to amend staff rule 111.2 ( a ) to provide that staff wishing to appeal an administrative decision should submit to the executive head of their department, office, fund or programme a copy of the letter addressed to the Secretary-General requesting a review of the case; decided that the Secretary-General should form a panel of external and independent experts to consider redesigning the system of administration of justice; also decided that the panel should be composed of a pre-eminent judge or former judge with administrative law experience, an expert in alternative dispute resolution methods, a leading legal academic in international law, a person with senior management and administrative experience in an international organization and a person with United Nations field experience; and decided that the panel should start its functions no later than 1 February 2006 and should submit its findings and recommendations by the end of July 2006 (resolution 59/283). The Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to ensure that, in case of proven miscounduct and/or criminal behaviour, disciplinary actino and, where appropriate, legal action in accordance with the established procedures and regulations will be taken expeditiously, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that Member States are informed on an annual basis about al actions taken (resolution 59/287).


Documents	Reports of the Secretary-General:
	(a) Administration of justice in the Secretariat (resolution 59/283), A/59/883;
	(b) Administration of justice at the United Nations : report of the activities of the Office of the Ombudsman resolution 59/283); A/60/376);
	(c) Administration of justice in the Secretariat: outcome of the work of the Joint Appeals Board during 2003 and 2004; and statistics on the disposition of cases and the work of the Panel of Counsel (resolution 55/258), A/60/72 and Corr.1;
	(d) Cases of proven misconduct and/or criminal behaviour (resolution 59/287); A/60/315)
	(e) Second report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. A/60/7/Add.1

References	For the fifty-ninth session (agenda items 108 and 120)
	Reports of the Secretary-General:
	Administration of justice in the Secretariat: outcome of the work of the Joint Appeals Board during 2002 and 2003 (A/59/70)
	Possibility of the financial independence of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal from the Office of Legal Affairs (A/59/78)
	Measures to prevent discrimination on the basis of nationality, race, gender, religion or language in the United Nations (A/59/211) (under item 114)
	Administration of justice in the Secretariat: role of the Panels on Discrimination and Other Grievances (A/59/414)
	Administration of justice in the Secretariat (A/59/449)
	Administration of justice in the Secretariat (A/59/706) (also relates to item 123)
	Note by the Secretary-General on compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (A/C.5/59/12)
	Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled "Administration of justice: harmonization of the statutes of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal and the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal" (A/59/280 and Corr.1) (also relates to item 115) and his comments thereon (A/59/280/Add.1) (also relates to item 115)
	Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the management review of the appeals process at the United Nations (A/59/408)
	Interim report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the administration of justice in the Secretariat (A/59/715)

	Summary records	A/C.5/59/SR.27, 28, 36, 42 and 43
	Report of the Fifth Committee	A/59/773
	Plenary meeting	A/59/PV.91
	Resolution	59/283

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