FAO Conference resolutions

Resolution

No.

21/67

Sessions of FAO Commissions,

Committees

and Working Parties and of their Subsidiary

Bodies

THE CONFERENCE

Noting

the recommendation of the United Nations' ad hoc Committee to Examine the Finances of the United Nations and Specialized Agencies, to the effect that no dependent body should be permitted to increase the number or length of its sessions already authorized without the specific approval of the organ which established it;

Considering

that this recommendation, as regards its implementation with respect to FAO, should be construed as applying to commissions, committees and working parties of Member Nations and of experts established under Articles VI and XIV of the FAO Constitution, and their subsidiary bodies, as well as to subsidiary bodies of committees of the

Council

established under Article V;

Recognizing

that a literal implementation of the aforementioned recommendation of the ad hoc Committee would result in serious practical difficulties;

Realizing

however that the objectives of such recommendation can be achieved by the exercise of appropriate controls by the

Conference

and Council;

Aware

that the procedures under which FAO operates require advance approval by the Conference of the Program of Work and Budget for the subsequent biennium and that the Program of Work and Budget for 1968/69 includes a complete list of sessions of statutory bodies and subsidiary bodies and of other conferences and consultations which the

Director-General

proposes for the biennium (C 67/3-Sup. 1-Rev. 1)

;

Decides

that sessions of FAO bodies, other than those sessions listed in the Program of Work for the relevant biennium, should only be convened in exceptional circumstances;

Authorizes

the

Director-General

to make such exceptions when in his view such action is necessary for the fulfillment of the Program of Work as approved by the

Conference

, subject however to such exceptions being reported to the session of the Council immediately following such action;

Invites

Member Governments to draw the attention of their delegates attending sessions of bodies of Member Nations to the need to adhere to the schedule of sessions provided for in the approved Program of Work;

Decides

that the terms of this Resolution shall apply equally to the convening of unscheduled sessions of panels of experts established under Article VI-4 of the Constitution;

Decides

that in the case of new bodies to be established under Article VI or XIV of the Constitution, or subsidiary bodies established by the latter, a provision should be included in the Convention, Agreement, Statutes or Rules of Procedure, as appropriate, limiting the frequency and duration of sessions of such bodies; and that the statutes of existing bodies should be amended accordingly as opportunity arises;

Further

decides

that the

Committee on Commodity Problems

and the

Committee on Fisheries

should include similar limitations in the statutes of any new subsidiary bodies which they may establish; and that the statutes of existing subsidiary bodies be amended accordingly as opportunity arises;

Requests

the

Director-General

to bring this Resolution to the attention of the chairmen and members of bodies of experts and, if necessary, also of intergovernmental bodies, in the event of any proposals formulated by them to convene unscheduled sessions.

(Adopted

21.11.67

)

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