Council

1. At its Sixty-sixth Session (June 1975) the Council, after concluding that the number of Sessions and their programming was a fundamental problem, requested that "an annotated schedule for the next biennium of Sessions of the Council itself and those Bodies which report to the Council should be submitted to the Sixty-eighth Council Session for approval, after adoption by the Conference of the Programme of Work and Budget and that this schedule should be reviewed at subsequent Sessions of the Council as required".¹

2. Appendix A gives the Provisional Calendar of FAO Governing Bodies and Other Main Sessions for 2000-2001. The Council is requested to approve the calendar for 2000, and to note the calendar for 2001. The Council Session in November 2000 will be given the Provisional Calendar 2001-2002 to approve the calendar for 2001.

Harmonizing Schedules of FAO, IFAD and WFP Governing Body Sessions

3. The Secretariats of FAO, IFAD and WFP, in an endeavour to harmonize the sessions of the respective Governing Bodies which require the participation of Permanent Representatives in Rome, established an Inter-Agency Working Group on Meeting Programming to prepare a calendar of main sessions on a two-year rolling basis.

4. Appendix B gives for information the Draft FAO/IFAD/WFP Calendar of Governing and Other Bodies 2000-2001 prepared jointly by the Working Group in an effort to avoid overlapping. The dates for each organization are subject to the approval of the respective Governing Bodies.

APPENDIX A

PROVISIONAL CALENDAR OF FAO GOVERNING BODIES
AND OTHER MAIN SESSIONS 2000-2001

APPENDIX B

PROVISIONAL FAO/IFAD/WFP CALENDAR OF GOVERNING
AND OTHER BODIES 2000-2001

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1  CL 66/REP, para. 301.