APPENDIX A

AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTY—SECOND 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, 1982
5. Report of the Seventh Session of the Committee on World Food Security — Rome , 31 March — 7 April 1982

   — Progress in Implementation of the Plan of Action to Strengthen World Food Security

6. Revision and Up—Dating of Guidelines and Targets for International Agricultural Adjustment
3. ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP
   7. Report of the Sixth Session of the Committee on Forestry — Rome , 3 — 7 May 1982
   8. World Food Programme:
      8.1 Seventh Annual Report of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes of the UN/FAO World Food Programme
      8.2 Election of Five Members of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes
   9. Inter—Agency Relations and Consultations on Matters of Common Interest, including:
      9.1 Recent Developments in the United Nations System of Interest to FAO
      9.2 Joint Inspection Unit Reports:
      1. Thirteenth Report on the Activities of the JIU (July 1980 — June 1981)
      2. Control and Limitation of Documentation in the United Nations System
      3. Status of Internal Evaluation in the United Nations System Organizations, and Second Report on Evaluation in the United Nations System
      4. Methods of Determining Staff Requirements
      5. Management Services in the United Nations System
      6. Application by the United Nations System of the Mardel Plata Plan on Water Development and Administration
      7. Work Programme of the Joint Inspection Unit for 1982
      8. Coordination in the Field of Public Information Activities
   10. Follow—up of WCARRD
   11. Progress Report on World Food Day Activities
4. PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS — REPORTS OF THE PROGRAMME AND FINANCE COMMITTEES 
   12. Format of Medium—Term Objectives and Programme of Work and Budget
   13. Financial Matters, including:
       13.1 Financial Position of the Organization
       13.2 Audited Accounts:
       1. Regular Programme, 1980—81
       2. UNDP, 1981
       3. World Food Programme, 1981
   14. Headquarters Accommodation
   15. Reports of the Forty—second and Forty—third Sessions of the Programme Committee, and Forty—ninth and Fiftieth Sessions of the Finance Committee, in particular:

       – Personnel Matters

       – World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development

       – Import Licences for Equipment for Official Use

   16. First Report on Unscheduled and Cancelled Sessions in the 1982—83 Biennium
   17. Revised Calendar of 1982—83 Sessions of the Council and of Those Bodies which Report to the Council
5. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS
   18. Report of the Forty—second Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters
   19. Other Constitutional and Legal Matters, including:
       19.1 Applications for Membership in the Organization:

       – Antigua and Barbuda

       – Belize

       19.2 Invitations to Non—Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions
       19.3 Abolition of the Regional Commission on Farm Management for Asia and the Far East , and Change of Title of the Asia and Far East Commission on Agricultural Statistics
       19.4 Establishment of a Regional Commission on Food Security for Asia and the Pacific
       19.5 Changes in Representation of Member Countries on the Programme and/or Finance Committee
       19.6 Change of Name of the Region “Latin America” to “Latin America and the Caribbean”

6. OTHER MATTERS

   20. Date and Place of the Eighty—third Session of the Council
   21. Any Other Business

       – Appointment of a Member Government Representative on the Staff Pension Committee