2. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations recognizes the United Nations as the central agency for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization, and improvement of statistics serving the general purposes of international organizations.

3. The United Nations recognizes the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as the appropriate agency for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization and improvement of statistics within its special sphere, without prejudice to the right of the United Nations to concern itself with such statistics so far as they may be essential for its own purposes or for the improvement of statistics throughout the world.

4. The United Nations shall in consultation with the specialized agencies develop administrative instruments and procedures through which effective statistical cooperation may be secured between the United Nations and the agencies brought into relationship with it.

5. It is recognized as desirable that the collection of statistical information should not be duplicated by the United Nations or any of the specialized agencies when. ever it is practicable for any of them to utilize information or materials which another may hare available.

6. In order to build up a central collection of statistical information for general use, it is agreed that data supplied to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for incorporation in its basic statistical series or special reports should so far as practicable be made available to the United Nations.

2. Accordingly, the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations agree to consult together concerning the establishment and use of common administrative and technical services and facilities in addition to those referred to in Articles XI, XII and XIV, insofar as the establishment and use of such services may from time to time be found practicable and appropriate.

3. Arrangements shall be made between the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in regard to the registration and deposit of official documents.

2. The United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations agree to cooperate to the fullest extent possible in achieving these ends and, in particular, shall consult together, concerning appropriate arrangements for the inclusion of the budget of the Organization within a general budget of the United National Such arrangements shall be defined in a supplementary agreement between the two organizations.

3. Pending the conclusion of such agreement, the following arrangements shall govern budgetary and financial relationships between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations:

2. Consultation between the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations shall similarly take place with a view to making such arrangements as may be found equitable for covering costs of central administrative, technical or fiscal services or facilities or other special assistance provided by the United National

2. The liaison arrangements provided for in the foregoing articles of this Agreement shall apply as far as appropriate to the relations between such branch or regional offices as may be established by the two organizations as well as between their central machineries.

A. RAMASWAMI MUDALIAR
President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and Chairman of the Committee of the Council on Negotiations with Specialized Agencies.

ANDRÉ MAYER
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Chairman of the Negotiating Delegation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

2. The Constitution of FAO in Article XVII, Interpretation of Constitution, provides:

4. In the negotiations between the negotiating committees of the Economic and Social Council and of FAO, the former proposed that FAO should receive similar rights of access to the Court as those provided for in the draft agreement with UNESCO, as follows:

7. The position of FAO is as follows:

The Organization is in agreement with the Economic and Social Council that questions concerning the mutual relationship of the Organization and the United Nations or other specialized agencies should be excluded from any general authorization for reference to the Court. It is most desirable that any such questions should as far as possible be settled through the medium of whatever coordinating machinery is set up by the United Nations and the specialized agencies rather than that they should be referred to the Court.

8. The Executive Committee of FAO, however, feels strongly that in the matter of access to the Court the position of FAO is parallel to that of ILO. During the negotiation of the draft agreement, the spokesmen for ESC justified the preferential treatment which they proposed to give to ILO on two grounds: (1) the oratorical position of ILO, and (2) that the Labour Organisation had negotiated and was responsible for international action in regard to a large number of labor conventions. In regard to the first point, the responsibilities of FAO and its terms of reference are as wide and important as those of ILO. In regard to the second point, FAO will undoubtedly find it necessary to negotiate many conventions, and provision is made for this in the Constitution, Article IV, paragraph 3:

10. International conventions for the regulation of fisheries either to avoid disputes or to promote the conservation of marine resources are also important and fall within the terms of reference of FAO.

11. As a result of the absorption by FAO of the functions of the International Institute of Agriculture FAO has, as from 1 August, taken over responsibility for a number of conventions, namely:

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By that date the Protocol had been signed on behalf of thirty-eight members of the Institute, and four more signed immediately afterwards. At the meeting of the General Assembly, at which all but five countries were represented, the resolution approving the Protocol and directing the Permanent Committee to wind up the affairs of the Institute was adopted by a unanimous vote without abstentions.

3. Under the Protocol the affairs of the Institute will not be formally wound up and its assets and liabilities transferred to FAO until the date on which the Permanent Committee notifies member governments that its task of liquidation is completed. This is not likely to be accomplished till about the end of the current year. Meanwhile, in order to insure that the work of the Institute should continue and that the interests of its employees should not be prejudiced, it was agreed in the terms of a letter addressed to the President of the Institute by the Director-General on June 1° (Annex III) that the functions of the Institute (including the Centre International de Sylviculture) together with its libraries, archives and equipment should be transferred to FAO on August 1, 1946, and that employees of the Institute resident in Rome should be offered temporary employment with FAO as from that date.

4. The principal tasks of the Permanent Committee in carrying out the process of liquidation will be to collect the arrears of contributions from member governments and to pay the sums due to members of the staff either as a matter of legal right or under voluntary arrange" meets approved by the General Assembly for bonus payments designed to compensate for the effect of currency devaluation on the pension and indemnity funds of the Institute.

5. At the time of the meeting of the General Assembly the arrears of contributions (other than those regarded as irrecoverable) amounted in total to the equivalent of 5,768,295 Swiss francs (excluding contributions of 1,624,760 Swiss francs due in respect to the current financial year). This sum would be sufficient to meet the whole of the Institute's liabilities, including voluntary bonus payments to members of the staff which in the view of the General Assembly constitute a moral obligation on the Institute and which represent by far the largest liability. Difficulties will however arise unless a considerable proportion of the arrears is paid in the near future. FAO cannot for obvious reasons accept any responsibility for the bonus payments and in face of the uncertainty about the arrears of contributions was unable to accede to a request from the Institute for a temporary advance of funds pending the receipt of overdue contributions. Several of the member governments of the Institute have already indicated that their contributions will be paid in full and it is hoped that other governments that are also members of FAO will take similar steps with the minimum of delay.

6. Arrangements have been made for a member of the staff of FAO to assume direction of the work of the Institute on August 1 with the help of an advisory committee made up of members of the Permanent Committee of the Institute. Any member of the staff of the Institute resident in Rome who wishes to be considered for permanent appointment to the staff of FAO and is not over-age will have an opportunity of applying for such appointment and will be employed by the Organization on a temporary footing until such time as a decision has been reached on 0a application, without prejudice to his right to any bonus granted by the Institute.

7. The work to be carried on at Rome needs careful consideration. The Italian Government has generously offered to place the Institute building at the disposal of FAO, and on the motion of that Government the General Assembly passed a resolution requesting FAO to give serious consideration to the possibility of establishing a European regional office in Rome. The general question of regional offices is discussed in the Director-General's First Annual Report to the FAO Conference but whatever decision may be reached on the time and place for the establishment of a regional office in Europe, it is doubtful whether Rome is central enough to be suitable for the purpose. It is however clearly desirable that FAO should have the use of the Institute building until such time as the activities carried on there can either be transferred to headquarters or allocated to a European regional office.

8. Meanwhile these activities must as soon as possible be integrated with the work of FAO as a whole, 80 that duplication of effort may be avoided in accordance with the Quebec resolution and governments may be spared the confusion and annoyance of receiving inquiries and requests for information on the same subjects from different sources.

9. The library and statistical services of the Institute have already been reported on by experienced members of the staff of the United States Department of Agriculture who visited the Institute last spring at the request of the Director-General. The branches of the Institute dealing with economies, agricultural production and legislation will be fully investigated immediately after this session of the Conference by one of the Special Advisers to the Director-General and the Director of the Economics and Marketing Division of FAO.

10. On the statistical side it is proposed that the work necessary for the publication of the Institute's Yearbook now in preparation should be completed in Rome, with the aid of any supplementary material that can be supplied from headquarters, but that the collection of current statistics should be concentrated in the newly established Food Reporting Service of FAO.

11. The problem of the Institute library was examined at the informal meeting of experts on statistical, scientific and technical information services held in London between 10 and 13 April. The meeting expressed the opinion that "no useful purpose would be served by moving the IIA library as a whole to the United States, since such a move would merely result in considerable duplication of existing resources in America while seriously depleting the limited research resources of Europe," and made some suggestions which are being carefully considered. It may be that the IIA library should be equipped to serve as a working reference collection for Europe, but no final decision can be taken until the question of a regional office is settled. Meanwhile the library will be maintained in Rome and will be brought up to date so far as possible with statistical periodicals and the like, but no new books will be bought for the time being.

12. Recommendations made by the Executive Commit. tee with the object of facilitating the consideration of applications from nations members of the International Institute of Agriculture that desire to become members of FAO of a separate paper (Con separate 7) circulated to the Conference.

13. It is hoped that by these means continuity, between the work of the Institute and that of FAO will be assured and that the good will built up in member countries by the Institute over forty years of pioneer work will be maintained.

(b) pay and satisfy all outstanding debts and claims for which the Institute is liable;

(c) discharge the employees of the Institute and transfer all personnel files and records to the Organization;

(d) transfer to the Organization possession of and full title to the property in the libraries, archives, records, and all residual assets of the Institute (including the Center).

(b) that any person in the employ, of the Institute who is resident in Rome on 31st July 1948 shall cease to be employed by the Institute at midnight on that day and shall, if he so desires, be come a temporary member of the staff as from 1st August 1940, without prejudice to any bonus based on the pension fund (fonds de retraite) and/or the indemnity tuna (fonds de resiliation) which may accrue to him under voluntary arrangements made by the Institute over and above its legal obligations, and without any obligation on the part of FAO to offer him permanent employment. It would be a condition of temporary employment by FAO that payment of any bonus may be deferred until the date on which the employee retires or is discharged from the employ of FAO.

3. The private character of the organization is evident from its composition as well as from the purposes for which it was formed. Besides the Polish State Department of Water and Forests and the Rumanian Independent Office of Forests, the C.I.B. included from the beginning private groups of traders and businessmen dealing in wood in the above mentioned countries. Later other groups of the same nature were added. Moreover the directors of the Comité were chosen from among the largest owners of forests in Poland and Austria. The feet that official organizations such as the French Department of Water and Forests became members of the C.I.B. did not alter the essential character of the organization, although certain phrases used in its statutes (e. g. "member countries" in Article II) were no doubt intended to suggest that it was an official organization of which governments were members. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for example, was never in any doubt about the real character of the C.I.B., whose fundamental aim, since 1932, has been to defend the interests of producers in the wood exporting countries, especially of central Europe. In an endeavor to get over the equivocal character of the organization the directors were engaged just before the war in efforts to create " by diplomatic convention " an " international council on wood " to " regularize the collaboration of the C.I.B. and the various governments."

4. The C.I.B. can be dissolved in accordance with the conditions set forth in Article IX of its statutes by a special meeting of the Permanent Committee, which can be convoked on the initiative of its President, Count Ostrowski, who is at present in London and is understood to be willing to call a meeting. The difficulty from the point of view of FAO is that it appears from present information that the C.I.B. has no assets and only liabilities .

5. The liabilities of the C.I.B. are understood to amount in total to about $15,000 consisting of:

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