Mr. Berridge (Officer-in-Charge of the Policy Coordination Unit, Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts), introducing the statement by the Secretary-General on the administrative and financial implications of the decisions and recommendations contained in the report of the International Civil Service Commission for 2003 (A/58/378), said that the Commission, at its fifty-seventh session, had upheld its previous decision that the level of hazard pay granted to locally recruited staff should be increased to 30 per cent of the midpoint of the local salary scale with effect from 1 January 2004.
M. Berridge (Fonctionnaire chargé du Groupe de la coordination des politiques du Bureau de la planification des programmes, du budget et de la comptabilité) présente l'état, soumis par le Secrétaire général, des incidences administratives et financières des décisions et recommandations figurant dans le rapport de la Commission de la fonction publique internationale pour 2003 (A/58/378).