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Resolution
13/71
Amendment of
Article XI
THE CONFERENCE
Recalling
the conclusions reached at its Fifteenth Session concerning the difficulties encountered in the implementation of the provisions of Article XI of the Constitution pertaining to the submission of periodic reports by Member Nations and Associate Members,
Recalling
further its decision that the matter should be considered by the
Council
, the
Programme Committee
and the
Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters
with a view to proposing an appropriate amendment to Article XI, designed to bring that constitutional provision up-to-date,
Having considered
the draft amendment submitted by the Fifty-Sixth Session of the Council, in the light of recommendations made by the Programme Committee at its Nineteenth Session and by the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters at its Twenty-Fourth Session,
Decides
that Article XI of the Constitution is hereby amended to read as follows:
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ARTICLE XI
1.
All Member Nations and Associate Members shall communicate regularly to the Director General on publication, the texts of laws and regulations pertaining to matters within the competence of the Organization which the Director-General considers useful for the purposes of the Organization.
2.
With respect to the same matters, all Member Nations and Associate Members shall also communicate regularly to the Director-General statistical, technical and other information published or otherwise issued by or readily available to, the government. The Director-General shall indicate from time to time the nature of the information which would be most useful to the Organization and the form in which this information might be supplied.
3.
Member Nations and Associate Members may be requested to furnish, at such times and in such form as the Conference , the Council or the
Director-General
may indicate, other information, reports or documentation pertaining to matters within the competence of the Organization, including reports on the action taken on the basis of resolutions or recommendations of the
Conference
.
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(Adopted,
24 November 1971
)