Reformed procedures for determining reimbursement to Member States for contingent-owned equipment and troop costs : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Endorses the recommendations of the post-Phase V Working Group on reform procedures for determining reimbursement of contingent-owned equipment and troop costs, as outlined in paragraph 17 of the report of the Secretary-General (A/55/815) subject to the provisions of the present resolution; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly for its approval at its resumed 56th session, a methodology for reimbursement for troop costs, covering troops and formed police units, and a questionnaire to be submitted to troop-contributing countries; decides that a future standard rate of reimbursement for troop costs should be based on new survey data that is representative of the costs incurred by around 60 per cent of countries that have contributed troops to peacekeeping operations; decides also, on an interim and ad hoc basis, to increase the standard rate of reimbursement for troop costs to troop-contributing countries by 2 per cent, effective 1 July 2001; decides further that an additional 2 per cent increase, on an interim and ad hoc basis, will be effective as of 1 Jan. 2002, bringing the total increase of the current rate of reimbursement for troop costs to 4 per cent.

Adopted without vote, 103rd plenary meeting

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