وخلال استعراضها للميزانية البرنامجية للمفوضية عن عام 2004، أعربت اللجنة عن انشغالها، وطلبت إلى المفوض السامي اتخاذ إجراءات عاجلة للالتزام بتوصيات مجلس مراجعي الحسابات والإفادة عما تم في أمر “الموظفين في الفترات الفاصلة بين المهام” في تقرير الميزانية المقبل.
Such staff undertake temporary assignments for which they are qualified, but a minority are not tasked with any assignment at all, some of them for an extended period of time (for example, as at 1 October 2002, 3 D-1 and 1 P-5 staff members had not worked at all for UNHCR for 15, 30, 43 and 44 months respectively, while being on special leave with full pay for the entire period).11 During its review of the UNHCR annual programme budget for 2004, the Committee expressed concern and requested that the High Commissioner take urgent action to comply with the recommendations of the Board of Auditors and report on the management of “staff-in-between- assignments” in the next budget report.