The rate of contribution was increased effective 1 January 1990, from 22.5 to 23.7 per cent of pensionable remuneration, of which the employing member organisation pays 15.6 per cent and the participant 7.9 per cent (resolution 44/199, section I): note of the arrangements agreed botween the International Civil Service Commission end the Pension Board to ensure full co-operation in the conduct of the comprehensive review of the methodology for the determination of the scale of pensionable remuneration to be carried out in 1990; requested the Commission, in undertaking that review in full co-operation with the Board, to take into consideration the recommendations it would be making on the remuneration structure, to study the desirability of establishing a margin range between the pensionable rcnnuneration of staff in the United Nations common system and staff in comparable grades in the comparator civil service, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session: approved, pending the completion of that review, a modification of the procedure for adjusting pensionable remuneration as recommended by ICSC and the consequent amendment to article 54 of the Regulations of the Fund (resolution 441199, erection II)8 (c) approved with effect from 1 January 1990 an mnendment to article 36 of the Regulations of the Fund to provide for the cosunencement of the payment of a di8abled child’8 hnefit at the 8ame time as an early retirement benefit (resolution 441199, rection III); and (d) taking note of the information provided by the Board on the proporal,of the International Telecosnnunication Union (ITU) to establioh a Pension Purcha8ing Power Protection Fund for its staff in the Professional and higher categories, and reaffirming the strong concern it had exprersed in rerolution H/233 about the need to maintain the unity, cohesion and integrity of the United Nations joint staff penlion 8yrtem, 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the management of a pension fund and its related policies, specifically the rate of contribution, adjustment of pensionable remuneration, and amendments to regulations. It also mentions the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) and the Pension Board, suggesting that the text is related to the administration of pensions for international civil servants.

**Category**
Employment