FC 92/1





Finance Committee



Ninety-second Session

Rome, 3 - 7 May 1999

Provisional Agenda


This document does not constitute an invitation to the session. While complete sets of documents cannot be provided, one copy of specific committee documents can be provided upon written request.

Table of Contents


1. Adoption of Agenda and Timetable (docs. FC 92/1, FC 92/1-Add.1, FC 92/INF/1)

I. BUDGETARY MATTERS

2. FAO Strategic Framework 2000-2015 (Version 3.0) (doc. CL 116/12)

3. Summary Programme of Work and Budget 2000-2001 (doc. CL 116/3)

4. Annual Report of Budgetary Performance and Programme and Budgetary Transfers (doc. FC 92/4)

II. FINANCIAL MATTERS

5. Financial Position of the Organization

a) Financial Position as at 28 February 1999 (doc. FC 92/5(a))

b) FAO Interim Accounts 1998 (doc. FC 92/5(b))

c) Report on Investments (doc. FC 92/5(c))

i) Regular Programme and Trust Funds

(ii) Compensation Plan Reserve Fund

(iii) Separation Payments Scheme

6. Progress Report on Implementation of the External Auditor's Recommendations (doc. FC 92/6)

7. Scale of Contributions 2000-2001 (doc. FC 92/7)

III. PERSONNEL MATTERS

8. Changes in Salary Scales and Allowances (doc. FC 92/8)

9. Annual Reports of the ICSC and UN Joint Staff Pension Board to the General Assembly, and Summary of the Decisions Taken (doc. FC 92/9)

10. Improvements in the FAO Recruitment Process (doc. FC 92/10)

IV. ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS

11. 1998 Annual Activity Report of the Office of Inspector-General (doc. FC 92/11)

12. Change in the Quota Distribution System of Information Products (doc. JM 99/2)

13. Review of FAO Language Policy (doc. PC 81/6-FC 92/13)

14. Headquarters Accommodation (no document)

15. UN Joint Inspection Reports

a) More Coherence for Enhanced Oversight in the United Nations System (JIU/REP/98/2) - together with the Comments of the Director-General and of the ACC (CL 116/INF/11)

b) Work Programme of the Joint Inspection Unit for 1999 (CL 116/INF/12)

c) Fellowships in the United Nations System (JIU/REP/98/1)(CL 116/INF/13)

V. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

16. WFP Report of Budgetary Performance 1998 (doc. FC 92/16)

17. WFP Strategic and Financial Plan (doc. FC 92/17)

VI. OTHER MATTERS

18. Working Methods of the Finance Committee (no document)

19. Date and place of Ninety-third Session

20. Any other Matters

21. Financial Management Improvement Programme (FMIP)