Reaffirms that: (a) The capacity to pay is the fundamental criterion for determining the scale of assessments; (b) The scale of assessments should be determined on the basis of reliable, verifiable and comparable data; (c) The methodology for determining the scale of assessments should be simplified as far as possible with a view to making it more transparent and stable over time; requests the Committee on Contributions, to submit to the General Assembly, at its 45th session, recommendations on adjustments, if necessary and where appropriate, to the elements and factors of the existing methodology; requests the Committee on Contributions to proceed with the further exploration of alternative income concepts and to consider excluding the allocation of any additional points, as result of the application of the scheme of limits, to those Member States having a very low per capita income; requests the Committee on Contributions to include in its report illustrative examples of implications of using the elements and factors mentioned in the present resolution, including different alternatives for ceiling and floor amounts.

Adopted without vote, 84th meeting

Adopted at the 84th plenary meeting, 21 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 279-280. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).