APPENDIX A

AGENDA FOR THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH COUNCIL SESSION

1. INTRODUCTION - PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION
   1. Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable
   2. Election of Three Vice-Chairmen, and Designation of the Chairman and Members of the Drafting Committee
   3. Statement by the Director-General
2. WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION
   4. State of Food and Agriculture, 1980
   5. Report of the Fifth Session of the Committee on World Food Security

   – Progress Report on Action Taken in Pursuance of Conference Res. 3/79

3. ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP
   6. Report of the Fifth Session of the Committee on Forestry
   7. Report of the Sixth Session of the Commission on Fertilizers
   8. World Food Programme:
      8.1 Fifth Annual Report of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes (CFA) of the UN/FAO World Food Programme
      8.2 Election of Five Members of the CFA
   9. Inter-Agency Relations and Consultations on Matters of Common Interest, including:
      9.1 Special Session of the UN General Assembly and the New International Development Strategy
      9.2 Coordination Activities within the UN System, including follow-up of FAO Conference Res. 6/79
      9.3 Joint Inspection Unit Reports, including:
      
      1. Initial Guidelines for Internal Evaluation Systems of United Nations Organizations
      2. Work Programme of the JIU for 1980
      3. Twelfth Report on the Activities of the JIU
      4. Evaluation of Technical Cooperation Activities of the UN System in Sri Lanka
      5. Report on FAO Regional Dairy Development and Training Centre for English-Speaking Countries in Africa ( Naivasha, Kenya)
   10. Action Arising out of the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (WCARRD) - Progress Report
   11. World Food Day
4. PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
   12. Agricultural Training - Report of an Evaluation Study
   13. First Report on Unscheduled and Cancelled Session in the 1980-81 Biennium
   14. Revised Calendar of 1981-81 Sessions of the Council and of Those Bodies which Report to the Council
   15. Financial Matters, including:
       15.1 Financial Position of the Organization
       15.2 Audited Accounts
   1. Regular Programme, 1978-79
   2. UNDP, 1979
   3. World Food Programme 1979
   16. Other Programme, Budgetary, Financial and Administrative Matters: Work of the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Sessions of the Programme Committee, and Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Sessions of the Finance Committee, including:
       16.1 General service Salaries
       16.2 Review of Conference Procedures
       16.3 Adjustments to the B.R. Sen Award
       16.4 UNDP Support Costs
5. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS
   17. Report of the Thirty-ninth Session of the CCLM, including:
       17.1 New Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and the African Development Bank
   18. Other Constitutional and Legal Matters, including:
       18.1 Date for Nominations for the Office of Director-General
       18.2 Applications for Membership in the Organization
       18.3 Changes in Representation of Member Countries on the Programme Committee
       18.4 Invitations to Non-Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions
6. OTHER MATTERS
   19. Date and Place of the Seventy-ninth Session of the Council
   20. And other Business