WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION A46/21 30 April 1993
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE
FORTY-SIXTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
Provisional agenda item 26.1
ASSESSMENTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Report by the Director-General
Following the accession of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic to membership of W H O , the Director-General recommends that the Health Assembly should establish assessment rates for these Members for 1993.
1. Following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, both Members of the United Nations, became Members of the World Health Organization by depositing with the Secretary-General of the United Nations formal instruments of acceptance of the W H O Constitution on 22 January 1993 and 4 February 1993 respectively.
2. It is accordingly necessary for the Health Assembly to establish the rates of assessment of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in W H O for the year 1993. The principle was laid down in resolution WHA8.5, and confirmed in resolution WHA24.12, that the latest available United Nations scale of assessments should be used as a basis for determining the scale of assessments to be used by WHO. The United Nations rates of assessment for the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic will be determined by the United Nations General Assembly in late 1993. However, the United Nations scale of assessments for the period 1992 to 1994 included a rate of 0.55% for the former Czechoslovakia and this, after allowing for differences in membership between the United Nations and the World Health Organization, gives a W H O percentage rate of assessment of 0.54%, as already adopted by resolution WHA45.15 in May 1992.
3. The Director-General wishes to inform the Health Assembly that the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic have both requested that the 1993 percentage rate of 0.54% in W H O of the former Czechoslovakia be apportioned between the two republics according to a two-third/one-third ratio resulting in assessment rates of 0.36% and 0.18% respectively. In fact, the two new Members have already paid their 1993 contributions to W H O on that basis.
4. In the light of the above considerations, the Health Assembly may wish to consider the adoption of a resolution along the following lines:
The Forty-sixth World Health Assembly,
Noting that the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, both Members of the United Nations, became Members of the World Health Organization by depositing with the Secretary-General of the United Nations formal instruments of acceptance of the W H O Constitution on 22 January 1993 and 4 February 1993 respectively;
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Recalling the principle established in resolution WHA8.5, and confirmed in resolution WHA24.12, that the latest available United Nations scale of assessments should be used as a basis for determining the scale of assessments to be used by W H O ;
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Recalling further that the Twenty-sixth World Health Assembly, in resolution WHA26.21, affirmed its belief that the scale of assessments in W H O should follow as closely as possible that of the United Nations;
Noting however that the United Nations rates of assessment for the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic wül not be determined by the United Nations General Assembly until late 1993;
Recalling that the 1993 rate of assessment of the former Czechoslovakia in W H O , based upon the latest available United Nations scale of assessment, was fixed by resolution WHA45.15 at 0.54%;
Noting that the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic have requested that, as concerns the year 1993, the 1993 assessment rate of the former Czechoslovakia be apportioned to them in the ratio of two- thirds and one-third respectively;
Noting further that the amounts calculated in accordance with the sharing ratio in the preceding paragraph have already been paid to W H O by the States concerned，
D E C I D E S :
(1) that the 1993 assessment rate of 0.54% established for the former Czechoslovakia by resolution WHA45.15 shall form the basis for calculation of the 1993 rates of assessment of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic;
(2) that the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic shall be assessed at the rates of 0.36% and 0.18% respectively for the year 1993;
(3) that the contributions due from the former Czechoslovakia in respect of the year 1993 under resolution WHA45.15 shall be replaced by the contributions due from the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic;
(4) that the contributions already paid by the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic for 1993 shall be applied to budgetary income.
