CL 104/REP REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO Hundred and Fourth Session Rome, 2-5 November 1993
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME 1993

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1993)

Independent Chairman: Antoine Saintraint

¹ Term of office until conclusion of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Conference, November 1993

² Term of office until 31 December 1994

³ Term of office until conclusion of the Twenty-eighth Session of the Conference, November 1995

⁴ Czechoslovakia was elected as a member at the Twenty-sixth Session of the Conference in November 1991 for the period 1 January 1993 to November 1995. As of 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist.

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)

ACTIVITIES OF FAO

Preparations for the Twenty-seventh Session of the FAO Conference

- Nominations of the Chairman of the Conference, and of the Chairmen of the Commissions of the Conference (Recommendations to the Conference)

- Election of the Nominations Committee

Report of the Fifty-ninth Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems. (Rome, 7-11 June 1993)

PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Programme Implementation Report 1992-93

Programme of Work and Budget 1994-95

Report of the Sixty-eighth Session of the Programme Committee and of the Seventy-seventh Session of the Finance Committee (Rome, 21-30 September 1993)

- Appointment of External Auditor (Resolution 1/104)

- Commissary Accounts (Draft Resolution for the Conference)

- Personnel Matters

1. Recent Developments in the Activities of ICSC and the UN Joint Staff Pension Board

2. Professional and Higher Categories

   - Post Adjustment

   - Staff Post Adjustment Problems arising from the Italian Lire Devaluation

3. General Service Category

   - Interim Adjustment

4. Personnel Statistics

- Payment by the European Economic Community to cover Administrative and other Expenses arising out of its Membership in the Organization

- Other Matter (Contribution by EEC to the FAO Field Programme)

- Working Arrangements of the Programme and Finance Committees

Financial Position of the Organization

- Collection of Assessed Contributions (Outstanding and in Arrears) (Appendix D)

1. Status of Contributions to the Budget

2. Current Assessments

3. Contributions in Arrears

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

5. Need for all Member Nations to pay Current Assesssment and Arrears

- Measures to Improve the Collection of Assessed Contributions (Appendix E. including Draft Resolution for the Conference)

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

Report of the Sixty-first Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters (CCLM) (Rome, 4-6 October 1993)

- Agreement for the Establishment of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (Appendix F)

- Draft International Agreement on the Flagging of Vessels Fishing on the High Seas (Appendix G)

- Revision of the Statutes of the Advisory Committee on Marine Resources Research (Appendix H)

- Italian Tax (6 per mille) on the Contents of Bank Accounts belonging to Staff Members

- Assessed Contribution of Czechoslovakia

Invitations to Non-Member Nations to Atttend FAO Sessions

Invitations to International Non-Governmental Organizations which do not have Status with FAO

Applications for Membership in the Organization

OTHER MATTERS

Unveiling of Portrait of Independent Chairman of Council

Date and Place of the Hundred and Fifth Session of the Council

APPENDICES

1. - Agenda for the Hundred and Fourth Session of the Council

2. - List of Delegates and Observers

3. - List of Documents

4. - Regular Programme Contributions

5. - Measures to Improve the Collection of Assessed Contributions

6. - Draft Agreement for the Establishment of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission

7. - Draft Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas

8. - Revised Statutes'of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research

COMMITTEES