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APPENDIX A
AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTY—THIRD SESSION OF THE COUNCIL
- INTRODUCTION — PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION
- Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable
- Election of Three Vice—Chairmen, and Designation of Chairman and Members of Drafting Committee
- Statement by the Director—General
- WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION
- Current World Food Situation
- Report of the Eighth Session of the Committee on World Food Security (Rome,13—20 April 1983)
- ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP
- Report of the Seventh Session of the Committee on Agriculture (Rome,21—30 March 1983) 1
- Report of the Eighth Session of the Commission on Fertilizers (Rome,31 January —3 February 1983)
- World Food Programme:
8.1 Eighth Annual Report of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes of the UN/FAO World Food Programme
8.2 The Twentieth Anniversary of the UN/FAO World Food Programme
- Inter—Agency Relations and Consultations on Questions of Common Interest, including:
9.1 Recent Developments in the United Nations System of Interest to FAO
9.2 Joint Inspection Unit Reports:
- Fourteenth Report on the Activities of the JIU (July 1981 June 1982)
- Personnel Policy Options and Career Concept (JIU/REP/81/ll and JIU/REP/82/3)
- Organization and Methods for Official Travel (JIu/REP/82/7)
- Communications in the UN System (JIU/REP/82/6)
- Status of Women in the Professional Category and Above (JIU/REP/82/4)
- Economic Commission for Africa (JIU/REP/82/1)
- Preparations for the Twenty—second Session of the FAO Conference, including:
10.1 Arrangements for the Session, and Provisional Timetable
10.2 Nomination of the Chairman and Other Officers of the Conference
10.3 Deadline for Nominations for Independent Chairman of the Council
- Preparations for the World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development
- PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
- Summary Programme of Work and Budget 1984—85
- Other Budgetary Matters:
13.1 Budgetary Performance 1982
13.2 Programme and Budgetary Transfers
- Financial Matters:
14.1 Financial Position of the Organization
14.2 Scale of Contributions 1984—85
- Headquarters Accommodation
- Reports of the Forty—fourth Session of the Programme Committee and the Fifty—first Session of the Finance Committee (Rome, 25 April — 6 May 1983),including:
16.1 Appointment of the External Auditor
16.2 Procedures for Dealing with JIU Reports
16.3 Personnel Matters
16.4 Other Financial Questions
16.5 Import Licences for Equipment for Official Use
- Revised Calendar of 1982—83 Sessions of the Council and Those Bodies which Report to the Council
- CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS
- Constitutional and Legal Matters, including:
18.1 FAO’s Immunity from Legal Process
18.2 Near East Statutory Bodies:
- Abolition of the Animal Production and Health Commission in the Near East, the Near East Plant Protection Commission, and the Commission on Horticultural Production in the Near East and North Africa and Establishment of the “Near East Regional Commission on Agriculture”
- Abolition of the Regional Food and Nutrition Commission for the Near East, the Near East Commission on Agricultural Planning,and the Near East Commission on Agricultural Statistics and Establishment of the “Near East Regional Economic and Social Policy Commission”:
18.3 Invitations to Non—Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions
18.4 Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme Committee
- OTHER MATTERS
- Date and Place of the Eighty—fourth Session of the Council
- Any Other Business
–Ninth World Forestry Congress 1984
1 Including the follow—up of Conference Resolution 6/81 on Plant Genetic Resources.