A/RES/59/268 D. Base/floor salary scale Recalling its resolution 44/198 of 21 December 1989, by which it established a floor net salary level for staff in the Professional and higher categories by reference to the corresponding base net salary levels of officials in comparable positions serving at the base city of the comparator civil service (the United States federal civil service), Approves, with effect from 1 January 2005, as recommended by the Commission, the revised base scale of gross and net salaries for staff in the Professional and higher categories, as contained in annex VI to the annual report of the Commission;4 E. Review of the level of children’s and secondary dependants’ allowances Recalling section II.F of its resolution 47/216 of 23 December 1992, Approves the recommendations of the Commission contained in paragraph 244 of its annual report;4 III A. Senior Management Service Recalling section I.A, paragraphs 5 and 6, of its resolution 57/285 of 20 December 2002, 1. Recalls that, in section I.A, paragraph 5, of its resolution 57/285 of 20 December 2002, it requested the Commission to review the proposal for the introduction of the Senior Management Service, as described in paragraph 80 of the annual report of the Commission, 5 in view of its intention to consider the question at its fifty-eighth session; 2. Also recalls that the Commission requested the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination to keep it informed and to report appropriately about the related developmental work proceeding under the auspices of the Board; 3. Further recalls its decision 55/488 of 7 September 2001; 4. Reaffirms articles 9 and 10 of the statute of the Commission; 5. Recognizes that measures to improve management capacity and performance among senior staff are highly desirable; 6. Affirms that the Commission is the only body responsible for recommending to the General Assembly the establishment of a separate category of staff for the common system; Requests the Commission to continue to monitor the project regarding 7. the improvement of management capacity and performance among senior staff by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, and to advise and make recommendations to the General Assembly as appropriate; _______________ 5 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 30 (A/57/30). 5