INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
RADIOCOMMUNICATION
ADVISORY GROUP
Document RAG2001-1/32-E
6 March 2001
Original: English
GENEVA, 12 - 16 MARCH 2001
Director, Radiocommunication Bureau
DEVELOPMENT OF THE RADIOCOMMUNICATION
SECTOR 2002-2003 BIENNIAL BUDGET
1
Introduction
According to No. 160C of the Convention, the Radiocommunication Advisory Group shall "review
priorities, programmes, operations, financial matters and strategies related to
radiocommunication assemblies, study groups and the preparation of radio conferences, and any
specific matters as directed by a conference of the Union, a radiocommunication assembly or the
Council;". In this respect and according to Decision 5 of the Plenipotentiary Conference
(Minneapolis, 1998), the present document gives general information on the preparation of the
Radiocommunication Sector input to the draft 2002-2003 biennial budget.
2
Radiocommunication Sector budget framework
This draft biennial budget of the Radiocommunication Sector is based on activities to be carried out
during the 2002-2003 period in accordance with the requirements specified in the Constitution,
Convention, the Radio Regulations and in various Regional Agreements and in pursuance to various
decisions, resolutions and recommendations of the Plenipotentiary Conference, the Council, the
world radiocommunication conferences, the radiocommunication assemblies as well as the Rules of
Procedures established by the Radio Regulations Board.
In particular, the decisions of the 2000 session of the Council concerning the reduction of the
duration of the Radiocommunication Assembly to three days and of the second meeting of the
Conference Preparatory Meeting to one week are reflected in this budget.
Compared with the previous biennium, the overall workload is expected to increase due to the
decisions of WRC-2000, the extensive preparations required for WRC-03 and RA-03 and for a
regional radiocommunication conference, greater volumes of frequency assignment, filings, etc.
The ITU-R study groups will also face a significant additional workload following decisions taken
by WRC-2000 for the preparation of WRC-03 and the following world radiocommunication
conference. These decisions resulted in the creation of three additional Joint Task Groups as well as
additional items to be examined within the present study group structure.
This budget does not include the cost of the preparation and organization of a regional
radiocommunication conference on the revision of the Regional Agreement for the European
Broadcasting Area "Stockholm 1961". Estimation of the cost of such a regional
radiocommunication conference would require further information from the Administrations
involved and appropriate budgetary decision by the Council.
Table I presents an outline of the Radiocommunication Sector draft budget to be submitted to the
Coordination Committee before its examination by the Council.
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TABLE I
Budget
Expend.
Proposed budget
2000-2001
estimates
2002
2003
Total
2002-2003
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Section 3.1 World radiocommunication conferences
2 467 000
3 100 000
2 757 530
2 757 530
Section 3.2 Radiocommunication assemblies
380 000
310 000
346 938
346 938
Section 5.1 Radio Regulations Board
900 000
790 000
458 053
346 512
804 565
Section 5.2 Radiocommunication Advisory Group
230 000
150 000
123 847
123 847
247 694
3 412 000
3 600 000
1 950 024
2 096 683
4 046 707
545 000
520 000
387 415
199 831
587 246
52 749 000
55 880 000
27 708 772
27 154 148
54 862 920
 Common expenditure
550 000
826 000
744 000
744 000
1 488 000
 Office of the Director
1 407 000
930 000
538 026
560 125
1 098 151
 Study groups department
4 637 000
5 056 000
2 732 131
2 775 386
5 507 517
 Space services department
13 573 000
18 038 000
9 307 624
8 974 993
18 282 617
 Terrestrial services department
18 627 000
16 624 000
6 551 692
6 355 644
12 907 336
 Informatics, administration & publications department
11 739 000
14 406 000
7 610 299
7 519 000
15 129 299
225 000
225 000
450 000
Section 6
Study group meetings
Section 8
Seminars
Section 9
Bureau
 Regional presence
Section 20
 Post-conference work
2 216 000
Publications
2 793 000
2 650 000
1 705 000
2 100 750
3 805 750
63 476 000
67 000 000
32 333 111
35 126 239
67 459 350
TOTAL
0
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