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RESOLUTION
8/2003
The
Number
and Length of Terms of Office of the Director-General, Article VII.1 of the
Constitution
of FAO
THE CONFERENCE
,
Recalling
the decision taken by the Council, at its Hundred and Twenty-third Session, held from 28 October to 1 November 2002, regarding the question of the number and length of terms of office of the Director-General, Article VII.1 of the Constitution,
Having considered
that, at its Hundred and Twenty-fourth Session, held from 23 to 28 June 2003, the
Council
accepted the report of the Group of “Friends of the Chair”, document CL 124/INF/22, and agreed to transmit the proposed amendment to Article VII.1 of the Constitution that the “
Director-General
should be appointed for a term of six years, renewable only once for a further term of four years”, to the
Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters
, at its Seventy-fifth Session, in October 2003, along with document CL 124/INF/22 before being submitted to the Thirty-second Session of the Conference for adoption,
Having further considered
the report of the Seventy-fifth Session of the
Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters
, held on 6 and 7 October 2003, as well as the Report of the Hundred and Twenty-fifth Session of the Council, held from 26 to 28 November 2003:
1.
Decides
to amend Article VII, paragraph 1, of the Constitution as follows: "
1.
There shall be a Director-General of the Organization who shall be appointed by the Conference for a term of six years. He shall be eligible for reappointment only once for a further term of four years.
"
2.
Decides
that the revision of Article VII, paragraph 1, of the Constitution shall apply to the election at the Thirty-third Session of the
Conference
in 2005 and govern the mandates of the
Directors-General
from
1 January 2006
.
(Adopted on
8 December 2003
)