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Council Group on Financial
Regulations
Terms of Reference
Pursuant to Recommendation 7 of the
Group of Specialists approved by the Council at its 2003 session, taking into
account the views of the ITU External Auditors, a group was set up to review and
recommend appropriate modifications to the Financial Regulations of the Union
with the following terms of reference:
1. to examine the
existing provisions of the Financial Regulations, including but not limited to
those pertaining to the Reserve for Debtors accounts (Article 29), the Reserve
Account (Article 30), and other reserves associated with various funds such as
the Exhibition Working Capital Fund (Article 19), with a view towards ensuring
conformity and consistency with the basic instruments of the Union, decisions of
the Plenipotentiary Conference and the Council, as well as the evolving needs of
ITU;
2. to delineate
the data elements to be contained in the budget and operational plans, and the
relationship between the two and with the strategic and financial plans adopted
by the Plenipotentiary Conference, taking into account any follow-up actions;
3. to ensure that,
with the development of results-based budgeting, appropriations are classified
by programme and activity, with the corresponding reference to the Strategic
Plan, instead of by category of expenditure;
4. to ensure that
the flexibility arrangements provided for in the Financial Regulations,
including deferred activities to be carried out for the following biennium, are
consistent with those of the other United Nations organizations;
5. to ensure that
transfer of unused appropriations related to translations into Arabic, Chinese
and Russian languages to be carried out for the following biennium are deleted
from the Financial Regulations;
6. to ensure that
the Financial Regulations include provisions for internal control in line with
those of other United Nations organizations;
7. to identify
other consequential changes to the Financial Regulations as a result of the
actions undertaken above.
Extended Mandate
Council 2005, by its Decision
530,
extended the mandate of the Council Group (Group FINREGS) consideration having
been taken of:
- the
revision of the mandate of the Council Group reflected in Council Decision
521,
as approved at the 2004 session of Council; and
- the
report of the Council Group on the Financial Regulations and Related Financial
Management Issues (Group FINREGS) presented to the 2005 session of the Council
(Document C05/39) which includes modifications to the Financial Regulations and
the elaboration of new Financial Rules.
Further Extended Mandate
Council 2006, by its Decision
536, decided to further extend the mandate of
the Council Group (Group FINREGS) consideration having been taken of:
- the
report of the Council Group on the Financial Regulations and Related Financial
Management Issues (Group FINREGS) presented to the 2006 session of the Council
(Document C06/21) which includes further
proposed amendments the Financial Regulations and the elaboration of new
Financial Rules; and
- Resolution
1255 on the amendments made by Council 2006
to the Financial Regulations.
Participation
The Group is
open to all Member States of ITU.
Chairmanship
The Group is
chaired by Mr. B. Gracie (Canada)
Information on Meetings
Tenth
Meeting - 11 September 2006 (Room K, 1330 hours)
Ninth
Meeting - 26 June 2006
Eighth Meeting - 2
February 2006
Seventh Meeting - 26 October 2005
Sixth Meeting - 27-28 April (2005)
Fifth Meeting -
24-25 January 2005
Fourth
Meeting - 28 October 2004
Third
Meeting - 6 September 2004
Second
Meeting - 1-2 April 2004
First
Meeting - 2-3 October 2003
Background and Additional Information
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