SCAF-18

CCAMLR has recognised the importance of Member capacity building to enhance their engagement in the work of CCAMLR. This proposal seeks to support the establishment of the General Capacity Building Fund (‘the Fund’) considered by the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Sustainable Financing and proposes a mechanism, including the establishment of a General Capacity Building Fund Panel, to Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Lihini Weragoda (Australia)

Approved By:
Ms Gillian Slocum (Australia)

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This report is the last of four describing the activities of the Secretariat under the 2015–2018 Strategic Plan. Highlights of the year are presented, which include the development of a new Strategic Plan for the next 4 years 2019–2022. Future reports will be against the format of the new Strategic Plan.

The Secretariat’s existing Strategic Plan runs from 2015 to 2018. A new strategic plan for 2019–2022 is presented, and details two types of tasks: thematic tasks, which seek to deliver specific objectives within the four years of the plan, and will involve contributions from all departments; and departmental tasks, which will largely be delivered by individual departments according to their Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Doro Forck (CCAMLR Secretariat)

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The ICG on Sustainable Financing (CCAMLR-XXXVII/17) recommended that several of the clauses of the Financial Regulations be amended to accommodate (i) the creation and operation of a Working Capital Fund, (ii) the creation and operation of a General Capacity Building Fund, and (iii) an amendment to the rules on small purchases to bring them up to date with current financial limits.

The Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Doro Forck (CCAMLR Secretariat)

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The ICG on Sustainable Financing (CCAMLR-XXXVII/17) recommended that in order to achieve sustainable financing into the future, notification fees should be increased in line with CPI (inflation) from their baseline in 2016. The fee structure should be simplified to remove the refundable portion, with considerable cost and administrative savings.

The Secretariat proposes changes to the Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Doro Forck (CCAMLR Secretariat)

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The Secretariat has revised the layout of the budget to provide further information across more years to enhance decision-making at SCAF and the Commission. It builds on the table layout that was approved by SCAF in 2016. The proposed changes also adopt the table presentation of the equity and special funds.

At CCAMLR-XXXVI, the Commission decided (paragraph 9.34) that, in relation to future work to provide appropriate opportunities for the Commission and Scientific Committee to further consider the PR2 recommendations, it requested:

(i)    the PR2 Report be placed in the public domain on the CCAMLR website with the understanding that the PR2 Report was received as the work Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Doro Forck (CCAMLR Secretariat)

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The ICG on Sustainable Finance (ICG-SF) met by correspondence during 2018. It made three proposals: (i) Create a Working Capital Fund, and change the Financial Regulations governing the way that this fund and the General Fund would be managed (CCAMLR-XXXVII/07); (ii) change the structure of the notification fees for new, exploratory and krill fisheries, and increase them annually in line with Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Belinda Blackburn (CCAMLR Secretariat)

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In 2017 SCAF directed the Secretariat to undertake a review of its Strategic Plan and its Staffing and Salary Strategy. Internal and external feedback received during the review supports a need to increase the proportion of IP positions at the Secretariat, and to strengthen the Secretariat’s Data Management, Fisheries Management, Scientific functions and Human Resources support to service Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Doro Forck (CCAMLR Secretariat)

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In 2017 SCAF directed the Secretariat to undertake a review of the implications of recent changes to the UN Common System of Salaries, Allowances and Benefits published by the ICSC. The Secretariat undertook this review, extending it to a general review of the application of the ICSC scheme by CCAMLR and by other relevant international comparator organisations. CCAMLR is mostly in line with Read More
Submitted By:
Ms Doro Forck (CCAMLR Secretariat)

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The Secretariat recommends that the Commission make some changes to the Staff Regulations so that the 2019–2022 Staffing and Salary Strategy (CCAMLR-XXXVII/21 Rev. 1) may be implemented effectively. The recommended changes are provided in Annex 1. The background to these changes is presented in detail in CCAMLR-XXXVII/21 Rev. 1 and CCAMLR-XXXVII/BG/02.