A/HRC/15/17 Division’s provision of documentation and summary record services, and proposed comprehensive measures to address those shortfalls. The Council accordingly adopted decision 9/103 on 24 September 2008, in which it requested, inter alia, the SecretaryGeneral to present to the General Assembly a report with details of the resources required to ensure the provision of necessary services indicated in the report of the Office of the High Commissioner (A/HRC/9/18). 3. The decisions of the Council from its ninth session were included in its report submitted to the General Assembly (A/63/53/Add.1), which was taken up by the Third Committee at its sixty-third session. A statement of programme budget implications (A/C.3/63/L.77) detailing the resource requirements as proposed in the OHCHR report (A/HRC/9/18) was submitted to the Committee in respect of its consideration of a draft resolution endorsing the Council decisions. Specifically, additional requirements of $6,137,700 for the remainder of the biennium 2008-2009, and $16,819,400 for the biennium 2010-2011, were identified. However, the Assembly eventually adopted resolution 63/160 with revised wording that “took note” of the report of the Council rather than endorsed it. Consequently, the related statement of programme budget implications was withdrawn. On 10 December 2008, the requirements in the withdrawn statement were reported to Member States for information only in an annex to the report of the Secretary-General on revised estimates resulting from the resolutions and decisions adopted by the Council at its ninth session (A/63/541/Add. 1, annex II). 4. In the absence of additional resources to support the greatly increased documentation workload associated with the evolution of the Council and the establishment of its universal periodic review process, the Secretariat endeavoured to utilize existing resources to support the Council as efficiently as possible. Without specific resources for the universal periodic review process, it was informally agreed to prioritize the processing of review documentation before considering the processing of summary records of the Council and its Advisory Committee for the period 2008-2009. Some document processing was also completed in New York, including translation of the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/12/48) and the processing of a summary record backlog of 5 million words. In its report, the Advisory Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Questions noted that the net 2008-2009 workload estimate, which excluded 10.2 million words of summary records of the proceedings of the Council and its subsidiary bodies that were not drafted, as informally agreed by the Council, amounted to 66.7 million words, or an increase of 27 per cent over the workload for the biennium 2006-2007.1 These increases, which included concurrent and continuing growth in documentation requirements for an expanding number of human rights treaty bodies, are indicated in the table below: 1 2 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 7 (A/64/7), chap. II, part I, para. I. 85.

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