E/2002/43/Rev.1 E/CN.19/2002/3/Rev.1 18. As shown above, the adoption by the Council of draft decisions I to IV recommended by the Forum would entail total requirements estimated at $1,340,800, broken down as follows: (a) Post requirements to be shown under section 9: $343,100 representing the standard cost (50 per cent for Professional and 65 per cent for General Service posts) of the six new posts (one D-1, one P-4, one P-3, one P-2 and two General Service) proposed to be established as temporary posts in New York as of 1 January 2003; (b) Non-post requirements to be shown under section 9: $383,900 to be used for temporary assistance, consultants, travel of representatives and of staff, general operating expenses, contractual services, office equipment, furniture and supplies etc.; (c) Non-post requirements to be shown under section 27.D, Office of Central Support Services: $158,400 to be used for the provision of office space for the new secretariat and other related requirements as summarized above; (d) Conference-servicing costs to be shown under section 2, General Assembly affairs and conference services: $455,400; (e) Staff assessment to be shown under section 32: $70,300 to be offset by an increase of the same amount under Income section 1, Income from staff assessment. 19. As indicated under the relevant paragraphs above, those amounts represent additional requirements over and above the resources approved by the General Assembly for the biennium 2002-2003. At this stage, it is not possible to anticipate whether they could be absorbed from within the resources approved by the General Assembly for the current biennium. It would therefore be necessary that they be provided through additional appropriations by the General Assembly. III. Conclusion 20. It will be recalled that, under the procedure established by the General Assembly in its resolutions 41/213 and 42/211, a contingency fund is established for each biennium to accommodate additional expenditures derived from legislative mandates not provided for in the approved or proposed programme budget. Under that procedure, if additional expenditures are proposed that exceed the resources that are available from the contingency fund, the activities concerned can be implemented only through the redeployment of resources from low-priority areas or the modification of existing activities. Otherwise, such additional activities would have to be deferred to a later biennium. 21. The adoption by the Council of draft decisions I to IV recommended by the Forum in its report on its first session would entail net additional requirements estimated at $1,340,800. The Secretary-General does not anticipate, at this stage, that those requirements could be absorbed from within the resources approved by the General Assembly for the current biennium. Therefore, those requirements would represent a charge against the contingency fund. The appropriation of the amount of $1,340,800 by the General Assembly would be made under relevant budget sections, as follows: $727,000 under section 9, Economic and social affairs; $455,400 under 31