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SECOND ITEM ON THE AGENDA

Programme and Budget for 1998-99

Collection of contributions from 1 January 1998 to date

1. This paper provides a summary of contributions received to 28 February 1998 and a comparison with the position at 28 February 1997. Appendix I gives details of contributions received and amounts credited during January and February 1998, and the position of contributions and amounts due as at 28 February 1998, subdivided as follows:

1. States which have settled their 1998 contributions in full;
2. States which have paid part of their 1998 contributions;
3. States which have made no payments but have received credits towards their 1998 contributions;
4. States which have made no payments and have received no credits towards their 1998 contributions.

2. Appendix II gives details of those member States which, at 28 February 1998, were subject to paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution.

Assessed contributions for 1998

3. Total assessed contributions for 1998 amount to 338,577,629 Swiss francs (Sw.frs.) compared with Sw.frs.336,143,611 for 1997. Section A of Appendix I lists member States which, at 28 February 1998, had settled all contributions due, through payment and through credits received.⁽¹⁾  Thirty-two member States (with 1998 contributions of Sw.frs.80 million, representing 23.6 per cent of assessed contributions) were in this position, ten of which paid their contributions before 1 January 1998. At the corresponding date in 1997, Sw.frs.82 million, or 24.4 per cent of 1997 assessed contributions, had been received from 31 States, ten of which had paid their contributions before 1 January 1997.

4. Section B lists 12 member States which have made partial payments against their 1998 contributions. At the corresponding date in 1997, ten States had made partial payments against their 1997 contributions. Section C lists States which have made no payment against their 1998 contributions, but which have received credits towards their contributions for the year, while section D lists States which have made no payment and have received no credits. Some 130 States are shown in the latter two sections, compared with 133 States in a similar position at the corresponding date in 1997.

5. At 28 February, total payments and credits received against 1998 contributions thus totalled Sw.frs.96.7 million, or 28.6 per cent of assessed contributions, as against Sw.frs.84.6 million or 25.2 per cent at the corresponding date in 1997.

Arrears of contributions

6. At 31 December 1997, contributions outstanding amounted to Sw.frs.249 million. At 28 February 1998, Sw.frs.95.2 million, or 38.2 per cent, had been received against these outstanding contributions. At the corresponding date in 1997, Sw.frs.14.2 million had been received representing 8.3 per cent of the contributions outstanding at 31 December 1996 of Sw.frs.170.8 million.

Paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution

7. The position of member States in relation to paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution as at 31 December 1997 is given in a separate paper.⁽²⁾  A number of other member States lost the right to vote on 1 January when their arrears of contributions equalled or exceeded their contributions due for the preceding two full years. Some member States have also regained the right to vote by making payments against their arrears of contributions in January and February 1998. A table listing those member States that were two years or more in arrears on 28 February 1998 is attached as Appendix II. The total of 47 member States in this position compares with 50 at the corresponding date in 1997, 51 in 1996 and 35 in 1995.

Summary of budgetary receipts

8. The International Labour Conference at its 85th (June 1997) Session noted that, if the budget of income for 1996-97 was fully received, there would be a budgetary surplus for the 65th financial period of $21,704,950, which at the budget rate of exchange for that financial period would amount to 25,177,742 Swiss francs. The ILC decided that this amount should be treated as budgetary income for 1998 and that should this surplus not be realized in full, the shortfall should be recouped from arrears of contributions received in the current biennium.⁽³⁾ 

9. At 31 December 1997, the excess of budgetary income over expenditure amounted to $20,536,919 which yielded 23,822,826 Swiss francs at the budget rate of exchange for that period. This amount was carried forward as income for 1998, leaving a shortfall of 1,354,916 Swiss francs to be recouped from current receipts of arrears of contribution.

10. Total budgetary receipts for the biennium up to 28 February 1998, including the amount carried forward, amounted to 215,778,422 Swiss francs. This is equivalent to 30.7 per cent of the gross budget. The budgetary receipts are summarized as follows:
 

	Swiss francs
Assessed contributions received to 28 February 1998	96 706 216
Arrears of contributions received	95 249 380
Total contributions received	191 955 596
Add: Excess income transferred from 1996-97 biennium	23 822 826
Total budgetary receipts	215 778 422

Geneva, 11 March 1998.

1. Amounts credited against 1998 contributions represent the distribution to eligible member States of incentive scheme credits, cash surpluses and net premium earned in prior periods. Details are given in footnote 1 to Appendix I.

2. GB.271/PFA/1.

3. See GB.271/PFA/1: table 1, footnote 4.

Appendix I

Contributions received and outstanding
Details of movements between 31 December 1997 and 28 February 1998 

	State	Contributions and amounts outstanding as at 31 December 1997	Assessed contributions for 1998			Amounts received or credited to 28 February 1998 in respect of		Balance due as at 28 February 1998
			%	Amount		1998 contributions (1)	Arrears
A.	States which have settled their 1998 contributions in full
	Australia	-	1.46	4 943 233		4 943 233	-	-
	Austria	-	0.86	2 911 767		2 911 767	-	-
	Bangladesh (2)	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Belgium	-	0.99	3 351 918		3 351 918	-	-
	Canada (2)	-	3.07	10 394 333		10 394 333	-	-
	Cape Verde (2)	130 790	0.01	33 858		33 858	6 539	124 251
	Cyprus	-	0.03	101 573		101 573	-	-
	Denmark (2)	-	0.71	2 403 901		2 403 901	-	-
	Eritrea	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Ethiopia	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Fiji	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Hungary	-	0.14	474 009		474 009	-	-
	India (2)	-	0.30	1 015 733		1 015 733	-	-
	Indonesia (2)	-	0.14	474 009		474 009	-	-
	Ireland	-	0.21	711 013		711 013	-	-
	Italy	-	5.18	17 538 321		17 538 321	-	-
	Jamaica	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Kuwait	-	0.19	643 297		643 297	-	-
	Luxembourg	-	0.07	237 004		237 004	-	-
	Malta (2)	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Mauritius (2)	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Myanmar	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Namibia (2)	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Netherlands	-	1.57	5 315 669		5 315 669	-	-
	Norway	-	0.55	1 862 177		1 862 177	-	-
	Papua New Guinea	32 693	0.01	33 858		33 858	32 693	-
	Slovakia (2)	-	0.08	270 862		270 862	-	-
	South Africa	-	0.31	1 049 590		1 049 590	-	-
	Sri Lanka	-	0.01	33 858		33 858	-	-
	Sweden	-	1.21	4 096 789		4 096 789	-	-
	Switzerland	-	1.19	4 029 074		4 029 074	-	-
	United Kingdom	-	5.24	17 741 467		17 741 467	-	-
		163 483	23.62	79 972 035		79 972 035	39 232	124 251
B.	States which have paid part of their 1998 contributions
	Bahamas	-	0.02	67,715		14,864	-	52,851
	Benin	-	0.01	33,858		322	-	33,536
	Chile	-	0.08	270,862		156,415	-	114,447
	Costa Rica	-	0.01	33,858		24,230	-	9,628
	Czech Republic	-	0.25	846,444		200,757	-	645,687
	El Salvador	-	0.01	33,858		1,137	-	32,721
	Germany	-	8.93	30,234,982		15,030,609	-	15,204,373
	Guyana	-	0.01	33,858		16,018	-	17,840
	Mozambique	-	0.01	33,858		302	-	33,556
	Nicaragua	-	0.01	33,858		6,559	-	27,299
	Panama	-	0.01	33,858		27,564	-	6,294
	Philippines	-	0.06	203,146		3,246	-	199,900
		-	9.41	31,860,155		15,482,023	-	16,378,132
C.	States which have made no payments, but have received credits towards their 1998 contributions
	Afghanistan (4)	101,044	0.01	33,858		1,582	-	133,320
	Albania (3) (4)	133,194	0.01	33,858		8	-	167,044
	Algeria	-	0.16	541,724		765	-	540,959
	Bahrain	67,163	0.02	67,715		822	-	134,056
	Barbados	-	0.01	33,858		28	-	33,830
	Botswana	-	0.01	33,858		45	-	33,813
	Burkina Faso	34,335	0.01	33,858		614	-	67,579
	Cambodia (4)	520,237	0.01	33,858		53	-	554,042
	Cameroon	62,412	0.01	33,858		614	23,283	72,373
	China	-	0.73	2,471,616		639	-	2,470,977
	Colombia	-	0.10	338,577		3,543	-	335,034
	Côte d'Ivoire	33,611	0.01	33,858		1,228	-	66,241
	Croatia (4)	1,040,650	0.09	304,720		3,345	-	1,342,025
	Cuba	565,171	0.05	169,289		3,076	244,792	486,592
	Democratic Republic of the Congo	65,982	0.01	33,858		614	-	99,226
	Dominica	33,611	0.01	33,858		342	-	67,127
	Ecuador (4)	192,989	0.02	67,715		1,026	-	259,678
	Egypt	-	0.08	270,862		404	-	270,458
	Estonia	-	0.04	135,431		4,261	-	131,170
	Finland	-	0.61	2,065,323		3,511	-	2,061,812
	France	-	6.33	21,431,964		33,841	-	21,398,123
	Gambia	19,331	0.01	33,858		82	-	53,107
	Greece	1,497,174	0.37	1,252,737		9,398	1,175,716	1,564,797
	Guinea	18,503	0.01	33,858		46	-	52,315
	Haiti (4)	125,999	0.01	33,858		1,582	-	158,275
	Honduras	79	0.01	33,858		272	-	33,665
	Iceland	-	0.03	101,573		151	-	101,422
	Iran, Islamic Republic of (4)	5,510,752	0.44	1,489,741		24,613	-	6,975,880
	Japan	-	15.43	52,242,528		5,754	-	52,236,774
	Jordan	-	0.01	33,858		4	-	33,854
	Korea, Republic of	-	0.81	2,742,479		18,659	-	2,723,820
	Lao People's Democratic Republic	33,611	0.01	33,858		315	-	67,154
	Lebanon	29,563	0.01	33,858		272	-	63,149
	Lesotho	33,611	0.01	33,858		283	33,611	33,575
	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	1,015,004	0.20	677,155		15,426	-	1,676,733
	Lithuania (4)	761,353	0.08	270,862		5,128	-	1,027,087
	Madagascar	74,494	0.01	33,858		1,582	40,689	66,081
	Malawi	-	0.01	33,858		316	-	33,542
	Malaysia	-	0.14	474,009		641	-	473,368
	Mauritania	63,789	0.01	33,858		614	-	97,033
	Mexico	-	0.78	2,640,905		24,372	-	2,616,533
	Mongolia	-	0.01	33,858		57	-	33,801
	Morocco	-	0.03	101,573		818	-	100,755
	Nepal	-	0.01	33,858		58	-	33,800
	New Zealand	-	0.24	812,586		1,240	-	811,346
	Niger	64,263	0.01	33,858		272	-	97,849
	Nigeria	966,130	0.11	372,435		6,837	776,061	555,667
	Oman	131,998	0.04	135,431		206	94,000	173,223
	Pakistan	208,111	0.06	203,146		1,635	205,113	204,509
	Peru	381,536	0.06	203,146		1,635	-	583,047
	Poland	7,909,417	0.32	1,083,448		1,789	-	8,991,076
	Qatar	-	0.04	135,431		1,547	-	133,884
	Romania	-	0.15	507,866		657	-	507,209
	Russian Federation	27,138,359	4.21	14,254,118		290,616	-	41,101,861
	Rwanda (4)	124,261	0.01	33,858		1,582	-	156,537
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	-	0.01	33,858		4	-	33,854
	Saint Lucia	-	0.01	33,858		48	-	33,810
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	33,611	0.01	33,858		81	-	67,388
	San Marino	-	0.01	33,858		55	-	33,803
	Saudi Arabia	-	0.70	2,370,043		3,628	-	2,366,415
	Seychelles (4)	73,874	0.01	33,858		342	-	107,390
	Singapore	-	0.14	474,009		680	-	473,329
	Slovenia	130,503	0.07	237,004		403	130,503	236,601
	Spain	-	2.35	7,956,574		12,258	-	7,944,316
	Sudan	45,860	0.01	33,858		272	-	79,446
	Suriname	62,634	0.01	33,858		614	-	95,878
	Swaziland	-	0.01	33,858		272	-	33,586
	Syrian Arab Republic	-	0.05	169,289		51	-	169,238
	Thailand	-	0.13	440,151		155	-	439,996
	The former Yug. Rep. Macedonia	33,611	0.01	33,858		204	-	67,265
	Trinidad and Tobago	-	0.03	101,573		1,535	-	100,038
	Tunisia	82,692	0.03	101,573		818	-	183,447
	Turkey	-	0.37	1,252,737		7,219	-	1,245,518
	Uganda	33,611	0.01	33,858		272	-	67,197
	Ukraine (4)	12,446,515	1.07	3,622,780		41,193	-	16,028,102
	United Arab Emirates	-	0.19	643,297		6,623	-	636,674
	United States	126,058,814	25.00	84,644,407		680,972	84,027,500	125,994,749
	Uruguay	134,504	0.04	135,431		1,367	-	268,568
	Venezuela	843,641	0.32	1,083,448		13,211	433,495	1,480,383
	Viet Nam (3)	122,010	0.01	33,858		53	-	155,815
	Yemen	-	0.01	33,858		342	-	33,516
	Zambia	38,625	0.01	33,858		614	-	71,869
	Zimbabwe	-	0.01	33,858		52	-	33,806
		189,098,242	62.65	212,118,883		1,252,158	87,184,763	312,780,204
D.	States which have made no payments and have received no credits towards their 1998 contributions
	Angola (4)	168,090	0.01	33,858		-	-	201,948
	Antigua and Barbuda (4)	197,801	0.01	33,858		-	-	231,659
	Argentina	4,136,730	0.47	1,591,315		-	4,136,730	1,591,315
	Armenia (4)	1,678,535	0.05	169,289		-	-	1,847,824
	Azerbaijan (4)	3,368,145	0.11	372,435		-	-	3,740,580
	Belarus (4)	3,154,923	0.27	914,159		-	-	4,069,082
	Belize	-	0.01	33,858		-	-	33,858
	Bolivia	75,627	0.01	33,858		-	35,324	74,161
	Bosnia and Herzegovina (4)	418,920	0.01	33,858		-	-	452,778
	Brazil	13,629,894	1.60	5,417,242		-	3,184,051	15,863,085
	Bulgaria	333,993	0.08	270,862		-	80,894	523,961
	Burundi	66,006	0.01	33,858		-	-	99,864
	Central African Republic (4)	131,031	0.01	33,858		-	-	164,889
	Chad (4)	256,520	0.01	33,858		-	-	290,378
	Comoros (4)	473,908	0.01	33,858		-	-	507,766
	Congo (4)	154,262	0.01	33,858		-	-	188,120
	Djibouti	141,352	0.01	33,858		-	-	175,210
	Dominican Republic	873,240	0.01	33,858		-	-	907,098
	Equatorial Guinea (4)	324,074	0.01	33,858		-	-	357,932
	Gabon (4)	73,576	0.01	33,858		-	-	107,434
	Georgia (4)	2,528,918	0.11	372,435		-	-	2,901,353
	Ghana	35,072	0.01	33,858		-	-	68,930
	Grenada (4)	108,451	0.01	33,858		-	-	142,309
	Guatemala	108,077	0.02	67,715		-	-	175,792
	Guinea-Bissau (4)	209,548	0.01	33,858		-	-	243,406
	Iraq (4)	3,908,769	0.14	474,009		-	-	4,382,778
	Israel	1,953,066	0.26	880,302		-	535,000	2,298,368
	Kazakhstan (4)	4,283,335	0.19	643,297		-	-	4,926,632
	Kenya	-	0.01	33,858		-	-	33,858
	Kyrgyzstan (4)	945,492	0.03	101,573		-	-	1,047,065
	Latvia (4)	1,496,522	0.08	270,862		-	-	1,767,384
	Liberia (4)	197,747	0.01	33,858		-	-	231,605
	Mali	83,937	0.01	33,858		-	33,198	84,597
	Moldova, Republic of (4)	2,303,555	0.08	270,862		-	-	2,574,417
	Paraguay (3)	1,008,653	0.01	33,858		-	20,188	1,022,323
	Portugal	-	0.27	914,159		-	-	914,159
	Sao Tome and Principe (4)	170,043	0.01	33,858		-	-	203,901
	Senegal	35,989	0.01	33,858		-	-	69,847
	Sierra Leone (4)	401,030	0.01	33,858		-	-	434,888
	Solomon Islands (4)	164,506	0.01	33,858		-	-	198,364
	Somalia (4)	307,242	0.01	33,858		-	-	341,100
	Tajikistan (4)	487,161	0.02	67,715		-	-	554,876
	Tanzania, United Republic of (4)	99,712	0.01	33,858		-	-	133,570
	Togo (4)	185,751	0.01	33,858		-	-	219,609
	Turkmenistan (4)	665,755	0.03	101,573		-	-	767,328
	Uzbekistan (4)	2,539,213	0.13	440,151		-	-	2,979,364
	Yugoslavia (4) (5)	5,836,989	0.10	338,577		-	-	6,175,566
		59,721,160	4.32	14,626,556		-	8,025,385	66,322,331
		248,982,885	100.00	338,577,629		96,706,216	95,249,380	395,604,918

Notes to Appendix I: Contributions received and outstanding

Details of movements between 31 December 1997 and 28 February 1998

1. Amounts credited against 1998 assessed contributions represent
the distribution of credits to eligible member States in respect of -- 

	Swiss franc
-- The incentive scheme for 1996	211 016
-- Cash surpluses for previous financial periods	289 925
-- 50 per cent of the net premium earned in previous financial periods	898 764
Total credits	1 399 705

2. States which paid before 1 January 1998.

3. Includes amounts due for prior periods of membership in the ILO.

4. Member States which, at 28 February 1998, were subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution of the Organization. All these States, with the exception of Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Paraguay and Poland, have lost the right to vote. These latter States are permitted to vote under financial arrangements approved by various sessions of the International Labour Conference. Similar arrangements had also been approved for Albania at the 81st Session (1994), and for Cambodia at the 82nd Session (1995) of the Conference, but these member States have again lost the right to vote because they have not respected these arrangements.

5. This refers to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In accordance with decisions taken by the Governing Body on the basis of relevant United Nations resolutions, no State has been recognized as the continuation of that Member.

Appendix II

Member States that are two years or more in arrears and which are
subject to paragraph 4 of article 13 of the Constitution

State	Years partly or fully due
Afghanistan	1995-97
Albania	1965-67/ 1997
Angola	1992-97
Antigua and Barbuda	1991-97
Armenia	1992-97
Azerbaijan	1992-97
Belarus	1995-97
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1993-97
Cambodia	1976-94/ 1997
Cape Verde (1)	1993-96
Central African Republic	1994-97
Chad	1977-82/ 1993-97
Comoros	1980-97
Congo	1993-97
Croatia	1995-97
Djibouti (1)	1992-96
Dominican Republic (1)	1985-96
Ecuador	1995-97
Equatorial Guinea	1987-97
Gabon	1995-97
Georgia	1993-97
Grenada	1994-97
Guinea-Bissau	1991-97
Haiti	1994-97
Iran, Islamic Republic of	1995-97
Iraq	1988-97
Kazakhstan	1993-97
Kyrgyzstan	1992-97
Latvia	1993-97
Liberia	1991-97
Lithuania	1995-97
Moldova, Republic of	1992-97
Paraguay (1)	1970-90
Poland (1)	1983-87
Rwanda	1994-97
Sao Tome and Principe	1992-97
Seychelles	1995-97
Sierra Leone	1983-97
Solomon Islands	1993-97
Somalia	1988-97
Tajikistan	1993-97
Tanzania, United Republic of	1995-97
Togo	1992-97
Turkmenistan	1993-97
Ukraine	1995-97
Uzbekistan	1994-97
Yugoslavia (2)	1989-97
(1) See footnote 4 on Appendix I .
(2) See footnote 5 on Appendix I .