REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

CL 99/REP

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

Ninety-ninth Session
Rome, 10-21 June 1991

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME
1991

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1991)

Angola*	Gabon**¹	Netherlands**
Argentina*	Germany*	Nicaragua*
Australia***	Ghana**	Pakistan***
Brazil**	Greece*	Philippines***
Cameroon***	India***	Poland**
Canada**	Indonesia*	Portugal**
Cape Verde***	Iraq*	Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of**
China*	Italy***	Sudan***
Colombia**	Japan*	Sweden***
Congo*	Kenya**	Thailand*
Costa Rica**	Korea, Republic of	Trinidad and Tobago**
Cote d'Ivoire**	Lebanon**	United Kingdom **
Cuba**	Libya**	United States of America**
Czechoslovakia*	Madagascar**	Venezuela*
Egypt***	Malaysia*	Zambia**
Ethiopia*	Mexico**
France**	Morocco**

*Term of office until conclusion of the Twenty-sixth Session of the Conference, November 1991

** Term of office until 31 December 1992

*** Term of office until conclusion of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Conference, November 1993

¹ Deemed to have resigned in accordance with Rule XXII-7 of the General Rules of the Organization

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL

INTRODUCTION - PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION

Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable (Appendix A)

Election of Three Vice-chairmen, and Designation of the Chairman and Members of the Drafting Committee

Statement by the Director-General (Appendix D)

Retirement of Mr D.K. Crowther, Assistant Director-General,Administration and Finance Department

WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION

Current World Food Situation

Report of the Sixteenth Session of the Committee on World Food Security (Rome, 11-15 March 1991)

ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP

Report of the Eleventh Session of the Committee on Agriculture (Rome, 22-30 April 1991)

- Review of FAO's Programme of Work in the Food and Agriculture Sector

- Food and Nutrition

- Biodiversity - Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

- Integration of Women in Agriculture and Rural Development

- Other Matters

Plan of Action on People's Participation

FAO/Netherlands Conference on Agriculture and the Environment (s'-Hertogenbosch, 15-19 April 1991)

Implementation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Clause

Report of the Fourth Session of the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources (Rome, 15-19 April 1991)

(Draft Resolution for the Conference)

Report of the Nineteenth Session of the Committee on Fisheries(Rome, 8-12 April 1991)

Sixteenth Annual Report of the WFP Committee on Food Aid Policies and Proarammes (Resolution 1/99, including Draft Resolution for the Conference)

Recent Developments in the UN System of Interest to FAO

Preparations for the International Conference on Nutrition 1992

Outcome of Meeting of Ad Hoc Group of Experts on TFAP(Geneva, 6-8 March 1991)

International Instrument on the Conservation and Development of Forests

Preparations for the Twenty-sixth Session of the FAO Conference

- Arrangements for the Session and Provisional Timetable

- Nomination of the Chairman and other Officers of the
Conference

- Deadline for Nominations for Independent Chairman of the
Council

Operational Activities for Development

PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Summary Programme of Work and Budget 1992-93

- Programme budget process

- Global priorities and areas of increased resources

- Areas of reduced resources

- Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP)

- International cooperative programme framework for
sustainable agriculture and rural development

- Financial framework

- Summary and Conclusions

Report of the Sixty-second Session of the Programme Committee

Reports of the Seventieth and Seventy-first Sessions of the Finance Committee

Budgetary Matters

- Budgetary Performance 1990

Financial Matters

- Scale of Contributions 1992-93 (Draft Resolution for the Conference)

- Accounting for Exchange Rates Differences

- Measures to be Considered to Encourage Prompt Payment of Contributions

Personnel Matters

- Annual Reports of the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) and the UN Joint Staff Pension Board to the General Assembly

- Changes in Salary Scales and Allowances

Appointment of a Representative of the FAO Conference to the Staff Pension Committee

Financial Position of the Organization: Collection of Assessed Contributions (Outstanding and in Arrears)

- Status of Contributions to the Budget (Appendix F)

- Current Assessments

- Contributions in Arrears

- Replenishment of the Special Reserve Account and Advances to the Working Capital Fund

- Need for All Member Nations to Pay Contributions

Status of Cash Flow

- Working Capital Fund

- Special Reserve Account

- Status of Cash Flow

Revised Calendar of 1990-91 Sessions of the Council and of Those Bodies which Report to the Council (Appendix G)

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

Report of the Fifty-sixth Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters (Rome, 15-17 April 1991)

- Cooperation Agreement between the African Development Bank (ADB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (Appendix H)

- Survey of Regional Economic Integration Organizations including Definition and Status

- Report by the Secretariat regarding Possible Forms of Membership for Regional Economic Integration Organizations in FAO, including Possible Amendments to the Basic Texts (Appendices I and J)

Proposed Amendment of the General Regulations of WFP
(Appendix K). including Draft Resolution for the Conference

WFP Headquarters Agreement

Invitations to Non-Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions

Attendance as an Observer by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

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

OTHER MATTERS

Date and Place of the Hundredth Session of the Council

APPENDICES

- Agenda for the Ninety-ninth Session of the Council

- List of Delegates and Observers

- List of Documents

- Statement by the Director-General

- Scale of Contributions

- Assessed Contributions of Member Nations to the Budget

- Revised Calendar of 1990-91 Sessions of the Council and of Those Bodies which Report to the Council

- Cooperation Agreement between the African Development Bank (ADB) and the African Development Fund and FAO

- Opinion of Legal Counsel

- Proposed Amendments to the Basic Texts

- Draft Resolution for the Conference on the Revision of the General Regulations of WFP and Membership of the WFP Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes