* أحاطت الأمانة علماً بموقف الولايات المتحدة القائم على أن اشتراكاتها في الميزانية الأساسية لفترة السنتين ٢٠٠٤-٢٠٠٥ ستكون في مستوى الجدول الإرشادي لاتفاقية الأمم المتحدة الإطارية بشأن تغير المناخ بالنسبة إلى الولايات المتحدة، ناقص حصتها التناسبية في الأنشطة التحضيرية المتعلقة بدخول بروتوكول كيوتو حيز التنفيذ.
Notes that the approval of the programme budget for activities relating to the Protocol for the biennium 2004−2005, in paragraph 1 above, is without prejudice to decisions to be taken on budgetary matters relating to the Protocol by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol; Approves a contingency budget for conference servicing, amounting to US$ 5,960,100, to be added to the programme budget for the coming biennium in the event that the General Assembly of the United Nations decides not to provide resources for these activities in the United Nations regular budget for the biennium 2004−2005 (see table xx below); Invites the United Nations General Assembly to decide at its fifty-eighth session on the issue of meeting the conference-servicing expenses from its regular budget; Requests the Executive Secretary to report to the Subsidiary Body for Implementation on the implementation of paragraph 7 above, as necessary; Authorizes the Executive Secretary to make transfers between each of the main appropriation lines set out in table xx below, up to an aggregate limit of 15 per cent of total estimated expenditure for those appropriation lines, provided that a further limitation of up to minus 25 per cent of each such appropriation line shall apply; Decides to maintain the level of the working capital reserve at 8.3 per cent of the estimated expenditure; Invites all Parties to the Convention to note that contributions to the core budget are due on 1 January of each year in accordance with paragraph 8 (b) of the financial procedures and to pay promptly and in full, for each of the years 2004 and 2005, the contributions required to finance expenditures approved under paragraph 1 above, as offset by the contributions noted in paragraph 2 above, and any contributions required to finance the expenditures arising from the decisions referred to in paragraph 7 above; Takes note of the funding estimates for the Trust Fund for Participation in the UNFCCC Process specified by the Executive Secretary (US$ 3,356,200 for the biennium 2004−2005), and invites Parties to make contributions to this fund (see table xx below); Takes note of the funding estimates for the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities specified by the Executive Secretary (US$ XXXX for the biennium 2004−2005), and invites Parties to make contributions to this fund (see table xx below); Requests the Executive Secretary, in accordance with the provisions of Rule 15 of the draft Rules of Procedure as being applied, to provide Parties with an indication of the administrative and budgetary implications of decisions to be referred by the SBSTA and/or the SBI to the COP for adoption, which may have administrative and budgetary implications that cannot be met from existing resources within the core budget; Requests the Executive Secretary to report to the Conference of the Parties at its tenth session on income and budget performance, and to propose any adjustments that might be needed in the programme budget for the biennium 2004−2005.