A/RES/60/283 V Improving reporting mechanisms: public access to United Nations documentation Comprehensive annual report 1. Emphasizes the importance of providing the information necessary to enable Member States to make well-informed decisions; 2. Reaffirms that all reports pertaining to administrative and budgetary matters are subject to the consideration of the Fifth Committee as the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for those matters; Takes note of the intention of the Secretary-General to prepare a single 3. comprehensive annual report containing both financial and programme information, with the aim of enhancing the transparency of the Organization and the accountability of the Secretariat to Member States; Emphasizes that the report would be developed in the context of 4. paragraphs 68 and 69 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 bearing in mind paragraph 2 above; 5. Also emphasizes that the report would be complementary in nature and would not replace the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization required under Article 98 of the Charter of the United Nations, nor reports that are subject to the consideration of the Fifth Committee; Public access 6. Notes the proposal of the Secretary-General on the policy for access to United Nations documentation by Member States and the public and also the observations of the Advisory Committee thereon, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session, for consideration and action, a comprehensive report containing detailed parameters of the above proposal, including information on resource requirements, financing mechanisms and the possibility of a fee structure, and also addressing the implementation of the existing mandates governing the issue of facilitating the access of Member States and the public to United Nations documentation and information materials, as contained in relevant resolutions of the General Assembly; VI Procurement Authorizes the Secretary-General to enter into commitments of up to 706,600 dollars to strengthen the United Nations procurement system, including by enhancing internal controls and developing business seminar programmes for vendors in developing countries, pending consideration of and action on the report of the Secretary-General on procurement reform 5 by the General Assembly at its sixty-first session; _______________ 5 6 A/60/846/Add.5.