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<p>The United Kingdom's assessed contributions to the Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe's Unified (regular) Budget IS 9.35% of the total budget. It
is paid in Euros and in the last ten years were approximately as in the table:</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>€16.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>€14.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>€14.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>€14.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>€14.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>€14.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>€15.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>€14.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>€14.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>€14.6m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom's contributions to the Organisation for Security
and Co-operation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine AT 11.9%, which
is funded separately from the Unified Budget as specified in its mandate, since it's
commencement in 2014 were approximately as in the table:</p><p> </p><p>Year Costs</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>€3,513,923m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>€7,208,500m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>€8,328,589m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>(Estimated)
€8,084,743m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the United
Kingdom has provided voluntary contributions towards the deployment of election observers
to various ODIHR missions across the OSCE in the last ten years approximately as in
the table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>£144,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>£200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£660,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£279,903</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£304,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£398,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£619,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£583,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£571,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£104,000
(to end June 2017</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK has also
contributed bilateral funding to various OSCE implemented projects over the past ten
years. Funding for these projects were agreed on a case by case basis and there is
no central record of all the contributions held.</p>
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