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Program and Budget Committee Wraps up withBroad Support for 2002-2003 Biennium Proposals

Geneva, April 27, 2001
Press Updates UPD/2001/129

Member states wrapped up a three-day meeting of the Program and Budget Committee on Friday by expressing "broad support" for proposals made by the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Dr. Kamil Idris, for the 2002-2003 program and budget. The proposed budget amounts to 512 million Swiss francs (ChF). This represents an increase of 13.8 % over the revised budget for 2000-2001 of 450 million ChF. In addition to the 512 million ChF, WIPO also requested member states to approve expenditure of 84 million ChF for ad hoc, one-time expenditure on information technology projects. The Committee agreed that the budget proposals should be presented in a single document, rather than the two separate documents submitted to member states in draft form.

The portion of the budget funded by contributions from member states entails no change in the contribution of each member state. Contributions by member states amount to less than 10% of the overall budget. WIPO is largely a self-funding agency, financing its activities from revenues acquired through the provisions of services to the private sector in the form of international registration/filing of patents, trademarks, and designs. The draft budget proposals presented by the Director General estimate income for the 2002-2003 biennium at 531 million ChF.

The increase in the proposed budget expenditure is due to the dramatic rise in demand for WIPO's services to the private sector. As WIPO is a demand-driven Organization, it must continuously upgrade its services to meet market requirements. For instance, it is estimated that over the next biennium (2002-2003), the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), which facilitates the international filing of patents, will grow by 20% and on-line dispute resolution filings by 50%. Fee decreases in use of the PCT of some 17% are also proposed for the next biennium as part of continuing efforts to make the PCT more accessible to users, including those from developing countries and the small and medium-sized enterprises sector. As a result, PCT fees would have been reduced by a total of 45 percent since 1997.

Also, increases are due to growth in strategic areas of the Organization's programs and services and the related policy issues that need to be addressed in the 2002-2003 biennium. In addition to information technology imperatives and unprecedented growth of global protection services and intellectual property dispute resolution services, these include progressive and dynamic development of intellectual property laws, refocused cooperation for development and human resources development, newly emerging global intellectual property issues and cost-effective operations and administration within the secretariat. The draft program and budget emphasizes that transparency in program and planning will be enhanced by a process of continuous monitoring and evaluation.

Final consideration of the draft program and budget 2002-2003 will be carried out by the Program and Budget Committee in September and final adoption will be made by the WIPO Assemblies, which will meet later that month.

The Committee was chaired by Mr. Arturo Hernández Basave (Mexico). Mr. Milan Majek (Slovakia) and Mr. James H. Williamson (United States of America) were elected as Vice-Chairmen of the Committee.

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