REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

CL 86/REP

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

Eighty-sixth Session
Rome, 19-30 November 1984

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ROME 1984

COUNCIL
(until 31 December 1984)

Independent Chairman: M.S. Swaminathan

Argentina^**
Austria^***
Bangladesh^**
Benin^**
Brazil^***
Bulgaria^***
Burkina Faso*1
Canada^***
Cape Verde^*
China^**
Colombia^**
Congo^***
Cuba^***
Cyprus^**
Czechoslovakia^**
Ecuador^*

Egypt^*
Ethiopia^*
France^*
Germany, Federal Republic of^**
India^*
Indonesia^**
Iraq^**
Italy^*
Japan^**
Lebanon^***
Lesotho^*
Malawi^**
Malaysia^**
Mexico^**
New Zealand^*
Norway^*
Pakistan^*

Panama^**
Philippines^*
Rwanda^**
Sao Tome and Principe^***
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of^*
Sierra Leone^***
Spain^**
Sudan^*
Thailand^*
Trinidad and Tobago^***
Tunisia^***
Uganda^**
United Kingdom^*
United States of America^**
Venezuela^**
Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of^**

^*Term of office until 31 December 1984.

^**Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-third Session of the Conference, November 1985.

^***Term of office until 31 December 1986.

¹Formerly Upper Volta.

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1985)

Independent Chairman: M.S. Swaminathan

Afghanistan^***
Argentina^*
Australia^***
Austria^**
Bangladesh^*
Benin^*
Brazil^**
Bulgaria^**
Canada^**
China^*
Colombia^**
Congo^**
Cuba^**
Cyprus^*
Czechoslovakia^**
Denmark^***

Ecuador^***
Egypt^***
France^***
Germany, Federal Republic of^*
India^***
Indonesia^*
Iraq^*
Italy^***
Japan^*
Lebanon^**
Liberia^***
Malawi^*
Malaysia^*
Mexico^**
Pakistan^***
Panama^*
Philippines^***

Rwanda^*
Sao Tome and Principe^**
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of^***
Senegal^***
Sierra Leone^**
Spain^*
Tanzania^***
Thailand^*
Trinidad and Tobago^**
Tunisia^**
Uganda^**
United Kingdom^***
United States of America^**
Venezuela^*
Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of**
Zimbabwe^**/a>

^* Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-third Session of the Conference, November 1985.

^** Term of office until 31 December 1986.

^*** Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-fourth Session of the Conference, November 1987.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL

INTRODUCTION

Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable

Election of three Vice-Chairmen, and Designation of the Chairman and Members of the Drafting Committee

Statement by the Director-General

WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION

State of Food and Agriculture, 1984

-The food situation in Africa (Res. 1/86)

Report of the Ninth Session of the Committee on World Food Security (Rome, 11-18 April 1984)

ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP

Follow-up on World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development

Forestry situation

-Report of the Seventh Session of the Committee on Forestry (Rome, 7-11 May 1984)

-Proposal that 1985 be proclaimed the International Year of the Forest (Res. 2/86)

World Food Programme

-Ninth Annual Report of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes of the UN/FAO World Food Programme

-Election of Five Members of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes

Recent Developments in the United Nations System of Interest to FAO

Progress Report on World Food Day Activities

PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Reports of the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Sessions of the Programme Committee, and Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Sessions of the Finance Committee

-AGRIS Data Base Utilization Policy

-Review of Programmes

-Use of Consultants 1982-83

-Annual Report of Budgetary Performance

Financial Matters

-Financial Position of the Organization: Contribution Matters

-Audited Accounts (Draft Resolution for the Conference)

Personnel Matters

-Changes in Salary Scales and Allowances

-Statistics of Personnel Services

-Appointment of Representatives of Member Governments to the FAO Staff Pension Committee

-Amendment to Staff Regulation 301.136

First Report on Unscheduled and Cancelled sessions in the 1984-85 Biennium

Revised Calendar of 1984-85 Sessions of the Council and of those Bodies which report to the Council.

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

Reports of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Sessions of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

-Review of the Rules Governing Voting Procedures of Council and Conference

Questions arising out of relations with the Host Government

-Headquarters Accommodation (Res. 3/86)

-FAO's Immunity from Legal Process in Italy

-FAO's Immunity from Measures of Execution in Italy

-Negotiations regarding the interpretation and application of the Headquarters Agreement

-Delay in issuance of Import Licences for Official Purposes (Res. 4/86)

Other Constitutional and Legal Matters

-Invitations to Non-Member Nations to attend FAO sessions

-Application for Membership of the Organization

-Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme and Finance Committees

-Abolition of the Regional Commission on Farm Management for Asia and the Far East

OTHER MATTERS

Date and Place of the Eighty-seventh Session of the Council

A - Agenda for the Eighty-seventh Session of the Council

B - List of Delegates and Observers

C - List of Documents

D - Statement by the Director-General

E - AGRIS Data Base Utilization Policy

F - Assessed Contributions of Member Nations

G - Salary Scale for General Service Staff in Rome

H - Unscheduled Sessions Approved and Approved Sessions cancelled between 1 January and 1 October 1984

I - Revised Calendar of 1984-85 Sessions of the Council and of those Bodies which Report to the Council

J - Declaration by the Representative of Italy on FAO's Immunity from Legal Process and from Measures of Execution in Italy