CL 122/2


Council

Hundred and Twenty-second Session

Rome, 14 November 2001

PROVISIONAL CALENDAR OF FAO GOVERNING BODIES AND OTHER MAIN SESSIONS 2002-2003

 

1. At its Sixty-sixth Session (June 1975) the Council, after concluding that the number of sessions and their programming was a fundamental problem, requested that "an annotated schedule for the next biennium of sessions of the Council itself and those Bodies which report to the Council should be submitted to the Sixty-eighth Council Session for approval, after adoption by the Conference of the Programme of Work and Budget and that this schedule should be reviewed at subsequent sessions of the Council as required".1

2. Appendix A gives the Provisional Calendar of FAO Governing Bodies and Other Main Sessions for 2002-2003. The Council is now requested to approve the Calendar for 2002, and to note the Calendar for 2003.

3. The Council at its Hundred and Twenty-third Session in October 2002 will be given the Provisional Calendar 2003-2004 to approve the Calendar for 2003.

Harmonizing Schedules of FAO, IFAD and WFP
Governing Body Sessions

4. The Secretariats of FAO, IFAD and WFP, in an endeavour to harmonize the sessions of the respective Governing Bodies which require the participation of Permanent Representatives in Rome, established an Inter-Agency Working Group on Meeting Programming to prepare a calendar of main sessions on a two-year rolling basis.

5. Appendix B gives for information the Draft FAO/IFAD/WFP Calendar of Governing and Other Bodies 2002-2003 prepared jointly by the Working Group in an effort to avoid overlapping. The dates for each organization are subject to the approval of the respective Governing Bodies.

Appendix A

PROVISIONAL CALENDAR OF FAO GOVERNING
AND OTHER BODIES 2002-2003

  

 2002

 2003

JANUARY

    

FEBRUARY

22 ARC

4 - 8

25 COFI

24 - 28

MARCH

25 NERC

9 - 13

16 COFO
64 CCP
17 COAG

10 - 14
18 - 21
31/3 - 4/4

APRIL

73 CCLM
27 LARC

8 - 9/4
22 - 26

75 CCLM

8 - 9

MAY

87 PC
98 FC
26 APRC
23 ERC

6 - 10
6 - 10
13 - 17
27 - 30

89 PC
100 FC
29 CFS

5 - 9
5 - 9
12 - 16

JUNE

28 CFS
WFS:fyl

6 - 8
10 - 13

124 CL

23 - 28

JULY

    

AUGUST

    

SEPTEMBER

88 PC
99 FC

9 - 13
9 - 13

90 PC
101 FC
12 WFC
76 CCLM

15 - 19
15 - 19
21 - 28
30/9 - 1/10

OCTOBER

74 CCLM
WFD
123 CL

2 - 3
16
28/10 - 2/11

WFD

16

NOVEMBER

  

125 CL
32 C

26 - 28
29/11 - 10/12

DECEMBER

  

126 CL

11

Eid Al-Adha:

23 Feb 02

Eid Al-Adha:

12 Feb 03

Easter:

31 Mar 02

Easter:

20 Apr 03

Ramadan:

6 Nov-5 Dec 02

Ramadan:

27 Oct-24 Nov 03

Eid Al-Fitr:

6 Dec 02

Eid Al-Fitr:

25 Nov 03

APRC

Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific

ERC

Regional Conference for Europe

ARC

Regional Conference for Africa

FC

Finance Committee

C

Conference

LARC

Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean

CCLM

Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

CCP

Committee on Commodity Problems

NERC

Regional Conference for the Near East

CFS

Committee on World Food Security

PC

Programme Committee

CL

Council

WFC

World Forestry Congress

COAG

Committee on Agriculture

WFD

World Food Day

COFI

Committee on Fisheries

WFS: fyl

World Food Summit: five years later

COFO

Committee on Forestry

    

Appendix B

PROVISIONAL FAO/IFAD/WFP CALENDAR OF GOVERNING
AND OTHER BODIES 2002-2003

 

 2002

 2003

JANUARY

      

FEBRUARY

22 ARC
WFP
IFAD/GC

4 - 8
11 - 15
18 - 22

WFP
IFAD/GC
25 COFI

10 - 14
17 - 21
24 - 28

MARCH

26 NERC

9 - 13

16 COFO
64 CCP
17 COAG

10 - 14
18 - 21
31/3 - 4/4

APRIL

73 CCLM
27 LARC
IFAD/EB

8 - 9
22 - 26
22 - 26

75 CCLM
IFAD/EB

8 - 9
14 - 17

MAY

87 PC
98 FC
26 APRC
WFP
23 ERC

6 - 10
6 - 10
13 - 17
13 - 24
27 - 30

89 PC
100 FC
29 CFS
WFP

5 - 9
5 - 9
12 -16
19 - 30

JUNE

28 CFS
WFS: fyl

6 - 8
10 - 13

124 CL

23 - 28

JULY

    

AUGUST

    

SEPTEMBER

IFAD/EB
88 PC
99 FC

2 - 6
9 - 13
9 - 13

IFAD/EB
90 PC
101 FC
12 WFC
76 CCLM

8 - 12
15 - 19
15 - 19
21 - 28
30/9 - 1/10

OCTOBER

74 CCLM
WFD
WFP
123 CL

2 - 3
16
21 - 25
28/10 - 2/11

WFD
WFP

16
20 - 24

NOVEMBER

   

125 CL
32 C

26 - 28
29/11 - 10/12

DECEMBER

IFAD/EB

9 - 13

126 CL
IFAD/EB

11
15 -19

Eid Al-Adha:

23 Feb 02

Eid Al-Adha:

12 Feb 03

Easter:

31 Mar 02

Easter:

20 Apr 03

Ramadan:

6 Nov-5 Dec 02

Ramadan:

27 Oct-24 Nov 03

Eid Al-Fitr:

6 Dec 02

Eid Al-Fitr:

25 Nov 03

APRC

Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific

FC

Finance Committee

ARC

Regional Conference for Africa

IFAD/EB

IFAD Executive Board

C

Conference

IFAD/GC

IFAD Governing Council

CCLM

Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

LARC 

Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean

CCP

Committee on Commodity Problems

CFS

Committee on World Food Security

NERC

Regional Conference for the Near East

CL

Council

PC

Programme Committee

COAG

Committee on Agriculture

WFC

World Forestry Congress

COFI

Committee on Fisheries

WFD

World Food Day

COFO

Committee on Forestry

WFP

World Food Programme Executive Board

ERC

Regional Conference for Europe

WFS: fyl

World Food Summit: five years later

1 CL 66/REP, para. 301.