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APPENDIX A
AGENDA FOR THE SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL

I. INTRODUCTORY - PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION

1. Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable

2. Election of Two Vice-Chairmen and Designation of Drafting Committees of Plenary and of the Committee-of-the-Whole

3. Statement by the Director-General

II. WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION

4. Current World Food Situation

III. ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP

5. World Food Security

6. International Agricultural Adjustment

7. Nutrition: Toward a New Strategy for Improving Nutrition

8. Agriculture: Work of COAG, Commission on Fertilizers and Ad Hoc Government Consultation on Pesticides in Agriculture and Public Health

9. Fisheries: Work of COFI

10. Forestry Questions:

10.1 Site of Eighth World Forestry Congress, 1978

10.2 Pulp and Paper Shortage - Position Report

*11. Proposal for Establishing a FAO Development Centre Financed with Extra-Budgetary Resources

12. World Food Programme

12.1 Work of IGC and Preparation for the Seventh Pledging Conference

12.2 Reconstitution of the IGC as a Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes

13. Inter-Agency Relations and Consultations on Questions of Common Interest:

13.1 Questions Arising out of the UN General Assembly, ECOSOC, ACC and the UNDP Governing Council

  1. International Women's Year

  2. UN Human Settlement Conference (Vancouver, 1976)

13.2 Preparations for the Special Session of the UN General Assembly Devoted to Development and International Economic Cooperation (1–12 September 1975)

* 13.3 UNIDO - Second General Conference (Lima, March 1975)

* 13.4 Relations with African Liberation Movements - Progress Report

* 13.5 UN Joint Inspection Unit

  1. Medium-Term Planning in the United Nations System

  2. Cost Measurement Systems in the Organizations of the United Nations Family

  3. Use of Travel Funds in FAO

14. Preparations for the Eighteenth Session of the FAO Conference

14.1 Arrangements for the Session and Provisional Agenda for the Conference

14.2 Nomination of the Chairman and Other Officers of the Conference

14.3 Date for Nominations for the Independent Chairman of the Council

IV. PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

15. Summary Programme of Work and Budget, 1976–77

16. Other Questions Considered by the Programme and Finance Committees

* 16.1 Programme Adjustments 1974–75

* 16.2 Implementation of Rationalization Proposals

* 16.3 AGRIS

* 16.4 Proposed World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

16.5 Method of Considering Programme of Work and Budget Proposals and Related Questions

  1. Method and Procedure for Council Consideration

  2. Organization of Discussion in Commission II of the Conference

* 16.6 Other Budgetary and Financial Matters

  1. UNDP Agency Overhead Costs

  2. Annual Report of Budgetary Performance to Member Nations

  3. Extra-Budgetary Activities

  4. Financial Position of the Organization

  5. Scale of Contributions

  6. Other Financial Questions

* 16.7 Personnel Questions

  1. Staff/Management Relations

  2. Progress Report on the International Civil Service Commission

  3. Junior Professional Career Training Programme

  4. Other Personnel Questions

* 16.8 Review of FAO Statutory Bodies

V. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

17. Work of CCLM

17.1 Establishment of a Committee on World Food Security

* 17.2 Proposed Amendments to Rule XXXII GRO

* 17.3 Procedure for Acquiring Membership in Council Committees

* 17.4 Criteria for Conference Resolutions

* 17.5 Rules of Procedure of Bodies Established under Article VI or XIV of the Constitution - Draft Amendment to Article VI.3

* 17.6 Examination of FAO Basic Texts

18. Effect on FAO of the Institutional Recommendations of the World Food Conference

18.1 Designation of Developing Countries as Members of CGFPI

VI. OTHER MATTERS

19. Date and Place of Sixty-Seventh Session of the Council

20. Any Other Business

* 20.1 Invitations to Non-Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions

* 20.2 Appointment of External Auditor

* 20.3 Rules of Procedure of FAO Fishery Bodies and Amendments Thereto

20.4 Programming of FAO Meetings, Translation and Distribution of Documents

21. Adoption of Report

* Examined in the Committee-of-the-Whole.


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