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Key WIPO Body Endorses 2006-2007 Program and Budget

Geneva, May 2, 2005
Press Updates UPD/2005/249

On Friday, April 29, 2005, the Program and Budget Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) endorsed the Proposed Program and Budget for the 2006-2007 biennium, which had been presented by the Director General of WIPO, Dr. Kamil Idris. The Proposed Program and Budget for 2006/07 will now be sent to the WIPO General Assembly in September 2005 for adoption. Three delegations at this time stated they were not able to support the proposal.

The Program and Budget Committee, which met in Geneva from April 27 to 29, 2005, endorsed a budget amounting to 531 million Swiss Francs (SFr). Addressing delegates at the opening of the meeting, Mrs. Carlotta Graffigna, WIPO Financial Controller, stressed that the Proposed Budget for 2006/07 introduced for the first time a policy based on budgetary balance after four consecutive biennia of budgeted deficits. This, with no increase in the fees levied on the services provided to the private sector, no deficit, no surplus, and reserves at the level set by member states.

Mrs Graffigna pointed out that income was expected to grow by 4.4 percent in 2006/07. Demand for the services provided by WIPO to the private sector continued to grow, while contributions from member states were at a historically low level (less than 7% of the overall income). In a basically status quo budget (only eight million SFr higher than the revised budget for 2004/05), resources for cooperation with developing countries increase from 71.7 million SFr in the revised budget for 2004/05, to 73.7 million SFr in the proposed budget for 2006/07. Thanks to the energetic cost-saving and efficiency measures adopted by the Director General, the deficit in the 2004/05 biennium was contained at a minimum, leaving reserves almost untapped.

While the Committee endorsed the proposal, it stipulated that the General Assembly in September 2005 could make adjustments as appropriate to the proposed program and budget for 2006/07 in order to take into account any budgetary implications resulting from on-going discussions on the WIPO Development Agenda, and other issues.

Delegates also supported a proposal for WIPO to take out a bank loan to fund the construction of a revised project for a new administrative building. Subject to the endorsement of the General Assembly meeting in September 2005, construction work would resume in 2006 following a tender for the bank loan, a new international tender for the general contractor and a tender for a company to provide external management of the implementation of the project. Decision on the tender for the general contractor and for the external management would be taken by an independent jury of representatives of member states. The total estimated cost of the revised project is 125.4 million SFr (details available at https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_pbc_8/wo_pbc_8_inf_1-main1.pdf).

Member states commended the secretariat for its constructive and full cooperation with the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) in respect of their report entitled "Review of Management and Administration in WIPO: Budget, Oversight and Related Issues" They recommended that the secretariat report to the WIPO General Assembly in September 2005 on the implementation of the recommendations of the report which are addressed to the Director General and that it transmit the other recommendations to the competent WIPO bodies for consideration. WIPO's preliminary observations on the report of the JIU are available at https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_pbc_8/wo_pbc_8_inf_2.pdf).

Member states also established an open-ended working group of the Program and Budget Committee to consider, inter alia, proposals for the establishment of a WIPO Audit Committee and to report to the General Assembly in September 2005 on this question.

The Program and Budget Committee session was chaired by Mr. Jae-Hyun Ahn (Republic of Korea). Mr. Li-Feng Schrock (Germany) and Mrs. Ivana Milovanovic (Serbia and Montenegro) were elected as Vice-Chairs of the Committee.

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