APPENDIX A

AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL

1. INTRODUCTION - PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION
   1. Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable
   2. Election of Three Vice-Chairmen, and Designation of Chairman and Members of Drafting Committee
2. ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP
   3. Preparations for the Twenty-third Session of the FAO Conference, including:
      3.1 Nomination of the Chairman of the Conference, and of the Chairmen of the Commissions of the Conference (Recommendation to the Conference)
      3.2 Election of the Nominations Committee
   4. Report of the Fifty-fifth Session of the Committe on Commodity Problems (Rome, 21-25 October 1985):
   5. Follow-up of Conference Resolutions 8/83 and 9/83 - Plant Genetic Resources
   6. Code of Conduct on Distribution and Use of Pesticides
   7. Inter-Agency Relations and Consultations on Questions of Common Interest, including:
      7.1 Recent Developments in the United Nations System of Interest to FAO
   8. Evaluation of the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP)
   9. World Food(WFP): Proposed Pledging Target for 1987-88
   10. Action Arising out of the Ninth World Forestry Congress (Mexico City, July 1985)
3. PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
   11. programme of Work and Budget 1986-87 and Medium-Term Objectives
   12. Review of the Regular Programme 1984-85
   13. Review of Field Programmes 1984-85
   14. Reports of the Forty-ninth Session of the Programme Committee; the Fifty- sixth Session of the Finance Committee, and their Joint Session (Rome, 16-27 September 1985) including:
       14.1 Financial Position of the Organization
       14.2 Appointment of the External Auditor
       14.3 Headquarters Accommodation
       14.4 Delayed Payments of Assessed Contributions
   15. Second Report on Unscheduled Sessions in the 1984–85 Biennium
4. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS
   16. Report of the Forty-seventh Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters (Rome, 14–18 October 1985) including:
       16.1 FAO's Immunity from Legal Process in Italy
       16.2 Reimbursement of Travel Expenses of Council Members (Rule XXV–6 GRO)
   17. Other Constitutional and Legal Matters, including:
       17.1 Invitations to Non-Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions
       17.2 Invitations to International Non-Governmental Organizations which do not have Status with FAO
       17.3 Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme and Finance Committees
5. OTHER MATTERS
   18. Any Other Business
   19. Date and Place of the Eighty-ninth Session of the Council