FIFTY-SIXTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 16.6
WHA56.34 28 May 2003
Adjustment mechanism The Fifty-sixth World Health Assembly, DECIDES: (1) to establish an adjustment mechanism that shall be available to compensate those Member States that will experience an increase in their rate of assessment due to the change in the WHO scale of assessments for 2004-20051 and for 2006-2007 as compared with the WHO scale of assessment for 2000-2001; (2) that the compensation shall be available to Member States that notify the DirectorGeneral before the beginning of the year concerned that they wish to benefit from this mechanism; (3) that the maximum available to each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 shall be limited to the amount corresponding to the increase resulting from a change in the WHO scale of assessment between 2000-2001 and 2004-2005 and between 2000-2001 and 2006-2007 applied to the sum of US$ 858 475 000; (4) that the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 3 shall be limited to a maximum of 60% of the increase in 2004, a maximum of 40% of the increase in 2005, a maximum of 40% of the increase in 2006, and a maximum of 30% of the increase in 2007; (5) that the amounts calculated in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 shall be applied as a credit to Member States’ accounts on 1 January of the year to which the credit relates; (6) that a further transfer to the adjustment mechanism from Miscellaneous Income of US$ 8 655 000 shall be incorporated in the appropriation resolution for the biennium 2006-2007.
Tenth plenary meeting, 28 May 2003 A56/VR/10 = = =
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See resolution WHA56.33.