29. 他介绍咨询委员会关于有限预算酌处权的报告(A/72/7/Add.30)时说，酌处权机制曾在 4 个两年期(2006-2007、2008-2009、2010-2011 和 2016-2017 两年期)中使用过 9 次，在 2012-2013 和 2014-2015 两年期中没有使用。在过去 3 个两年期中该机制只动用了455 300 美元，而授予秘书长的唯一酌处权为每两年期 600 万美元。自从这项试验性机制第一次获得批准以来，该机制从未达到秘书长经咨询委员会同意在特定两年期内使用 2 000 万美元的上限。
29. Introducing the Advisory Committee’s report on limited budgetary discretion (A/72/7/Add.30), he said that the discretionary mechanism had been utilized on nine occasions during four bienniums (2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2010–2011 and 2016–2017), and had not been used during the bienniums 2012–2013 and 2014–2015. Only $455,300 had been utilized under the mechanism over the past three bienniums, while the sole discretionary authority granted to the Secretary-General amounted to $6 million per biennium. The ceiling for the mechanism of $20 million within a given biennium, to be used by the Secretary-General with the concurrence of the Advisory Committee, had never been reached since the experimental mechanism had first been approved.