A/RES/52/216 Page 3 Notes that the margin between net remuneration of officials in the Professional and higher categories of the United Nations in New York and that of officials in comparable positions in the United States federal civil service for 1997 is 115.7; C. Base/floor salary scale Recalling section I.H of its resolution 44/198, 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 federal civil service of the United States of America), Approves, with effect from 1 March 1998, the revised base scale of gross and net salaries for staff in the Professional and higher categories, contained in annex I to the present resolution, and the consequential amendment to the Staff Regulations of the United Nations, as reflected in annex II to the present resolution; D. Post adjustment at Geneva Recalling section I.B of its resolution 50/208 of 23 December 1995 related to the establishment in 1996 of a single post adjustment index in respect of staff members whose duty station is Geneva, Recalling also section I.E of its resolution 51/216, in which it reiterated its request to the Commission urgently to complete its study regarding the methodology for establishing a single post adjustment index for Geneva and to complete the study needed to implement the single post adjustment at the earliest date, and no later than 1 January 1998, 1. Welcomes with appreciation the extensive information provided by the Commission and the organizations of the common system, as contained in the report of the Commission;7 2. Notes that a number of elements have been raised that had not previously been reported upon, or discussed by the General Assembly; 3. Requests the Commission to review those elements, inter alia, the possibility for staff members of the common system (a) to reside in France, (b) to travel to France and (c) to transport goods between France and Switzerland, and the way in which transitional measures would be introduced under any option proposed by the Commission and approved by the General Assembly, so as to make the application of the post adjustment system more equitable for all staff members whose duty station is Geneva, and to report thereon to the Assembly at its fifty-third session; 4. Invites the executive heads of the organizations of the common system to bring this matter7 to the attention of their governing bodies with a view to considering changes as necessary to their staff regulations and rules; 7 Ibid., paras. 63-102 and annexes VII-XIV. /...