A/RES/57/292 recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,18 subject to the provisions of the present resolution; 4. Decides to appropriate an amount of 6,896,100 dollars to support the meeting requirements of the Counter-Terrorism Committee for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 March 2003 in the programme budget for the biennium 2002–2003 as follows: 6,531,900 dollars under section 2, General Assembly affairs and conference services, and 364,200 dollars under section 27 D, Office of Central Support Services; 5. Notes the continued unpredictability of the service requirements for the activities of the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the scope for absorption of some or all of the costs related to the servicing of the Committee; 6. Reiterates paragraph 2 of its resolution 56/288 of 27 June 2002, in which it requested the Secretary-General to ensure the provision of conference and support services to the Counter-Terrorism Committee without adversely affecting other conference services; 7. Decides to consider further the conference and support servicing of the Counter-Terrorism Committee for 2003 in the light of the review by the Security Council of the activities of the Committee; 8. Decides also to approve 9.9 million dollars for realized vacancy rates in 2002 and to consider the actual realized vacancy rates for 2003 in the context of the second performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2002–2003; 9. Reiterates paragraphs 133 to 136 of its resolution 56/253; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide information on regular budget expenditures on a quarterly basis in the appropriate format; 11. Notes with deep concern the serious and continuing deterioration in the business of the United Nations Postal Administration; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure, as a matter of priority, that the continuing downward trend in the business of the United Nations Postal Administration is reversed, considering all possible courses of action for the future conduct of its business, and to report thereon to the General Assembly in the context of the second performance report; 13. Approves a net increase of 176,866,900 dollars in the appropriation approved for the biennium 2002–2003 and a net increase of 2,807,300 dollars in the estimates of income for the biennium, to be apportioned among expenditure and income sections as indicated in the report of the Secretary-General;17 VII Contingency fund: consolidated statement of programme budget implications and revised estimates Notes that a balance of 31,200 dollars remains in the contingency fund. 78th plenary meeting 20 December 2002 8