Decision on the first item on the agenda: Programme and Budget proposals for 2018–19: Conference resolution

Record of decisions | 23 March 2017

Decision on the first item on the agenda: Programme and Budget proposals for 2018–19: Conference resolution

The Governing Body:

(a) recommended to the International Labour Conference at its 106th Session (June 2017) a provisional programme level of US$793,331,474 estimated at the 2016–17 budget exchange rate of 0.95 Swiss francs to the US dollar, the final exchange rate and the corresponding US dollar level of the budget and Swiss franc assessment to be determined by the Conference;

(b) proposed to the Conference at the same session a resolution for the adoption of the programme and budget for the 76th financial period (2018–19) and for the allocation of expenses among member States in that period in the following terms:

The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, in virtue of the Financial Regulations, passes for the 76th financial period, ending 31 December 2019, the budget of expenditure for the International Labour Organization amounting to $............... and the budget of income amounting to $................., which, at the budget rate of exchange of Swiss francs …………. to the US dollar amounts to Swiss francs ……….., and resolves that the budget of income, denominated in Swiss francs, shall be allocated among member States in accordance with the scale of contributions recommended by the Finance Committee of Government Representatives.

(Document GB.329/PFA/1/1, paragraph 3.)