Estimated Revenue and Expenditure for 1964 and 1965*
The Codex Alimentarius Commission approved the action taken by its Executive Committee to revise the budget for 1964 on an austerity basis in the amount of 3108,300. In spite of this revision it was noted by the Commission that there was unlikely to be any carry forward of monies in the Trust Fund for 1965.
After the Commission had heard from countries which already contribute to the Trust Fund and had received promises of contributions from a number of other countries, it became clear that there was a possibility of a deficit of $50,000 against the proposed austerity budget for 1965. The Commission therefore strongly urged Member Countries to enlarge their contributions and to pay them into the Trust Fund as early as possible in 1965, preferably during the months of January and February. The Commission approved a budget of $121,400 for 1965 subject to the funds becoming available.
Estimates of Expenditure for 1966 and 1967*
The Commission endorsed the proposed estimates of expenditure prepared by its Executive Committee in the amounts of $168,375 per annum for 1966 and 1967 recognizing that these estimates might be subject to change by the governing bodies of FAO and WHO.
Method of Financing of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme from 1 January 1966 onwards
The Commission, after receiving reports from representatives of FAO and WHO concerning the arrangements being made by the Directors-General of both Organizations for the financing of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme after 1965, adopted the following resolution and requested the Secretariat to bring it to the attention of the Directors-General as soon as possible:
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE SECOND SESSION OF THE JOINT FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION ON THE METHOD OF FINANCING OF THE JOINT FAO/WHO FOOD STANDARDS PROGRAMME FROM 1 JANUARY 1966 ONWARDS
THE COMMISSION
RECALLING the recommendation in the Report of the First Session of the Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission to the effect that the expenditure involved in the Joint Food Standards Programme should be covered by the regular budgets of FAO and WHO as soon as the different budgetary procedures of the two organizations would make this step practicable,
NOTING that the Twelfth Conference of FAO instructed the Director-General to make provision in the FAO programme and budget for the Joint Food Standards Programme in 1966 and 1967,
FURTHER NOTING that the Seventeenth World Health Assembly requested the Director-General of WHO to study further the financial consequences of including a proportion, as agreed with FAO, of the cost of the Joint Food Standards Programme in the regular budget of WHO,
REALIZING that the situation may arise where FAO would have included an appropriate sum in its regular budget in 1966 whereas WHO might not have done so,
RECOGNIZING that there is a need for preventing the disruption of the programme by the provision of stable and adequate financing,
RECOMMENDS to the governing bodies of FAO and WHO that the Joint Food Standards Programme in view of its importance to all Member Countries of both organizations should be included in the regular programmes and budgets of both the organizations from 1 JANUARY 1966 onwards, and
REQUESTS the Directors-General of FAO and WHO to bring this resolution to the attention of the Thirteenth Session of the FAO Conference and the Thirty-Fifth Session of the Executive Board of WHO as well as the Eighteenth World Health Assembly.
