– 70 – (2.1 – Conditions of employment) D 579 (C13) Mandatory age of retirement at ITU The Council, recognizing No. 63 of the ITU Convention, recognizing further that Resolution 48, inter alia, resolves that the management and development of ITU’s human resources should be compatible with the goals and activities of the Union and with the United Nations Common system, having considered Resolution 67/240 adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2012 authorizing the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board to increase the mandatory age of retirement (MAR) for new participants to the Fund from 62 to 65 years of age, having noted that, according to paragraph 10 of the above-mentioned UNGA Resolution, this decision will be effective not later than 1 January 2014 unless the General Assembly has not decided on a corresponding increase in the mandatory age of separation (MAS) as established by the UN Staff Regulations and Rules, decides to approve the increase of the mandatory age of retirement from 60 and 62 to 65 years of age for ITU staff and therefore to approve the amendments to the ITU Staff Regulations in Annex to this Decision, decides further a) that these amendments will enter into force, provided that the corresponding amendments to the Statutes of the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund have become effective under the conditions prescribed in the UNGA Resolution 67/240, on 1 January 2014 or a prior date as established by the decision to be taken by UN General Assembly for Staff of the UN Secretariat; b) that these amendments will apply to staff recruited on and after that date, instructs the Secretary-General to implement the present decision and to report to the Council on a regular basis. urges the Secretary-General to limit, to the extent possible, any exceptional extensions beyond retirement age to a maximum two-year period past that which is established for the staff member concerned, and in accordance with Staff Regulation 9.9.