FAO Conference resolutions

Resolution

No.

35/65

Authority

of the Director-General for

Emergency

- Action for the Control of Livestock Diseases

THE CONFERENCE

Recalling

that at Its Twelfth Session It had authorized the Director-General to withhold the distribution of any cash surplus of the 1962-63 biennium in order to establish an Emergency Fund for the Control of Livestock Diseases (Resolution No. 25/63),

Noting

that no cash surplus arose from that biennium,

Recalling

further that It had requested the

Director-General

, in such event, to give consideration to the establishment of a Fund from outside sources, and to request Member Nations to offer practical suggestions to this effect,

Noting

that no practicable proposals for financing from outside sources were received;

Concurs

in the opinion of the

Finance Committee

that the augmented Working Capital Fund has been established at a level sufficient to finance initial emergency measures for the control of outbreaks of livestock diseases under emergency circumstances which constitute a potential epizootic threat to livestock of other countries;

Authorizes

the

Director-General

, after consultation with the

Chairman of the Finance Committee

or another member of that Committee designated by him, and in the light of the recommendations of an Advisory Panel of technical experts, notwithstanding the provisions of Financial Regulation 6.3, to withdraw up to $500,000 from the Working Capital Fund to finance such measures, subject to the proviso that no more than $100.000 may be withdrawn up to 30 June 1966;

Requests the Director-General to:

(a)

establish under Article VI(4) of the Constitution such an Advisory Panel comprising three experts of acknowledged competence in epizootiology with three alternates, each being a national of a different Member Nation;

(b)

report to the Council or to the Finance Committee, whichever meets first, immediately after funds have been withdrawn from the Working Capital Fund under this Resolution, giving details of the use made of such withdrawals.

(Adopted

6.12.65

)

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