text: stepsshould betakentoensurethatthosestandards arestrictly enforced. Secondly, withregardtothesubstantive oreditorial quality ofthe documents, theAdvisory Committee recommends thatefforts shouldbemadeto upgrade thedrafting andeditorial abilities oftheSecretariat asawhole, interalia,through theexpansion ofefforts bytheTraining Service inthis area. 5.Withregardtotranslation (paras. 12-19), theCommittee notesthatthe present standards donotincorporate theelement ofself-revision andthatthe Secretary-General isnowproposing newstandards thatincorporate thisaspect ofthework. TheAdvisory Committee alsorecalls thestatement bythe Secretary-General inparagraph 15ofhisreportthattheDepartment of Conference Services "intended toaimataneventual targetforself-revision ofupto45percentofthetranslation workload". TheCommittee notes, however, thattheSecretary-General isproposing arevision of40percent. Thereasons forthiswerenotfullyconvincing totheAdvisory Committee. In theviewoftheCommittee, technological advances andfurther efforts employed inthetraining oftranslators shouldresultinmoreworkthatwouldbe subject toself-revision. TheAdvisory Committee therefore recommends that thetargetof45percentshouldbemaintained. Ifthattargetwereapplied toanotional translation jobof150standard finalpages(49,500 words)the following wouldresult: Translators Self-revisers Revisers TotalCurrent standards (workdays) 30.0 -11-~sed standards (workdays) 40percent 45percent self-revision/self-revision 18.0 16.5 14.1 15.8 ~ ~ 38.1 1.LJ! Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Library6.TheAdvisory Committee notesfromparagraph 20oftheSecretary-General's reportthatnostandards currently existforreproduction. TheCommittee also notesthattheSecretary-General's proposals contained inparagraphs 21to24 areexperimental. Inthisconnection, theCommittee wasalsoinformed that thosestandards werenotreached through anexhaustive study. Intheviewof theCommittee, reproduction isaffected notonlybythequality ofstaff services butalsobytheuseofmodernefficient equipment. TheAdvisory Committee notesthedifference between thestandards applied atHeadquarters andattheUnitedNations OfficeatGeneva. TheCommittee understands that thatislargely duetothedifferent configurations ofequipment atthetwo centres. Thatbeingthecase,theAdvisory Committee recommends thatthe figureof20,OOO-page impressions shouldserveasastarting pointforGeneva, ratherthanthe15,000 proposed bytheSecretary-General. 7.Withrespect tointerpretation (paras. 25-27), precis-writing (paras. 28-30), verbatim reporting (paras. 31-33) andsupporting staff (paras. 34and35),nochanges areproposed totheworkload standards that currently exist. TheAdvisory Committee examined theareasofinterpretation, precis-writing andverbatim reporting inthecontext oftherequirements of temporary versus permanent staff. Theinformation giventotheCommittee in thatregard wasnotconclusive andtheCommittee intends tocontinue examining thecost-effectiveness ofusingtemporary asopposed topermanent staffinthe context ofitsconsideration oftheproposed programme budget forthebiennium 1992-1993. 8.Section IIofthereportcontains information related toworkload statistics forthevarious conference services inthebienniums 1986-1987 and 1988-1989. TheCommittee notesthatthisinformation hasbeenprovided in response toitsrequest. 1/TheCommittee continues tobedissatisfied with thesituation atVienna andintends topursuethatquestion inthecODtext of itsconsideration oftheproposed programme budget forthebiennium 1992-1993. 9.Forcomparative purposes, theAdvisory Committee requested the specialized agencies toprovide information concerning workload standards for theirconference-servicing ~taff. 10.According toinformation provided bytheInternational Monetary Fund,
analysis: The text appears to be related to the management and organization of a specific organization or institution, specifically the United Nations, and its conference services. The discussion revolves around workload standards, translation, reproduction, and other technical aspects of document production. The tone is formal and bureaucratic, suggesting a focus on administrative or procedural matters.