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This section includes meetings costs, travel of Article 5 party meeting participants and hospitality.
Meeting costs (not including travel of Article 5 parties)
The 2016 meeting costs have been increased as follows:
$80,000 to cover the cost of the resumed thirty-seventh meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (15 and 16 July 2016), back to back with the thirty-eighth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (18–21 July) and the Third Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties (22 and 23 July) in Vienna.
$70,000 to cover interpretation at three sessions daily for the meetings of the
Open-ended Working Group and the Third Extraordinary Meeting in Vienna in July. The cost of the third daily session is substantially higher due to the summer holidays and the Department of Conference Services having to hire non-Vienna-based interpreters
For the 2017 approved budget:
The 2017 budget represents a decrease of 20 per cent compared to the 2016 budget given that one less meeting is planned for 2017. In addition, in 2017 the cost of the meeting, which is currently budgeted at $252,000, is shared with the Vienna Convention Trust Fund, hence the decrease in meeting costs to $460,000. However, the proposed budget for 2018 for this line item will increase to $645,000.
One Bureau meeting is scheduled for each of the years 2017 and 2018, with provision for interpretation and document translation into the appropriate languages depending on the membership of the Bureau. The proposed costs have remained the same as for the 2016 budget.
The approved and proposed budgets for Implementation Committee meetings in 2017 and 2018 have remained the same as the approved amount for 2016.
Hospitality cost covers receptions at the meetings of the Open-ended Working Group and the Meeting of the Parties.
Necessary funds may be transferred from the conference servicing budget lines
(1321–1326) should such services be required, either through individual consultancies or corporate contracts.
Travel of Article 5 party meeting participants
For the 2017 approved budget:
The participation of representatives of parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 in the various Montreal Protocol meetings is budgeted at $5,000 per representative per meeting using the most appropriate and advantageous economy class fare and United Nations daily subsistence allowances.
All other costs remain the same. For 2017 and 2018, the cost of travel for Article 5 party meeting participants decreases given that no additional meetings are planned.
The Secretariat confirms that no funds from the budget lines in this section have been used to cover the cost of travel of representatives of non-Article 5 parties.
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