CL 128/INF/4




Council


Hundred and Twenty-eighth Session

Rome, 20-25 June 2005

REVISED CALENDAR OF FAO GOVERNING BODIES AND OTHER MAIN SESSIONS 2005-2006



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 for information the Revised Calendar of FAO Governing Bodies and Other Main Sessions for 2005-2006. Sessions already held during the biennium are listed so as to enable the Council to have a complete picture of the pattern of sessions for the period 2005-2006. Changes from Appendix F to the final Report of the Hundred and Twenty-seventh Session of the Council are marked with an asterisk.

3. The Council at its Hundred and Thirtieth Session in November 2005 will be given the Provisional Calendar 2006-2007 to approve the Calendar for 2006.

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. Appendix A also gives for information details of IFAD and WFP Governing and Other Bodies in 2005-2006. The dates for each organization are subject to the approval of the respective Governing Bodies.


Appendix A


PROVISIONAL FAO/IFAD/WFP CALENDAR OF GOVERNING BODIES
AND OTHER MAIN SESSIONS 2005-2006


 

  2005

  2006

JANUARY

WFP

31/1 - 4/2

IFAD/VII*
24 ARC

16 - 20
30/1 – 3/2

FEBRUARY

IFAD/GC

14 - 18

IFAD/GC
WFP

13 - 17
20 - 24

MARCH

26 COFI
COFI MM
COFO MM
17 COFO

7 - 11
12
14
15 - 19

28 NERC
80 CCLM

12 - 16
27 - 28

APRIL

78 CCLM*
65 CCP
19 COAG
IFAD/EB
IFAD/VII

5-6
11 - 13
13 - 16
18 - 20
21 - 22

IFAD/EB*
29 LARC

18 - 21
24 - 28

MAY

109 FC
93 PC
31 CFS

9 - 13
9 - 13
23 - 26

95 PC
111 FC
28 APRC

8 - 12
8 – 12
15 - 19

JUNE

WFP
128 CL

6 - 10
20 - 25

25 ERC
WFP

7 - 9
12 - 16

JULY

IFAD/VII*

5 - 7

   

AUGUST

       

SEPTEMBER

IFAD/EB
110 FC
94 PC

6 - 8
19 - 23
19 – 23

IFAD/EB
32 CFS
112 FC
96 PC

11 - 15
18 - 22
25 - 29
25 - 29

OCTOBER

IFAD/VII
79 CCLM*
WFD

1- 2
11 - 12
17 (Monday)

81 CCLM
WFD

2 - 3
16 (Monday)

NOVEMBER

WFP
129 CL
33 C
130 CL

7 - 11
16 - 18
19 - 26
28

WFP
131 CL

6 - 10
20 - 25

DECEMBER

IFAD/VII
IFAD/EB

12 - 13
14 - 16

IFAD/EB

11 - 15

 

Eid Al-Adha:

21 Jan 05

Eid Al-Adha:

11 Jan 06

 

Easter:

27 March 05

Easter:

16 Apr 06

 

Ramadan:

4 Oct – 2 Nov 05

Ramadan:

24 Sep – 23 Oct 06

 

Eid Al-Fitr:

3 Nov 05

Eid Al-Fitr:

24 Oct 06

APRC

Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific

ERC

Regional Conference for Europe

ARC

Regional Conference for Africa

FC

Finance Committee

C

Conference

IFAD/EB

IFAD Executive Board

CCLM

Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

IFAD/GC

IFAD Governing Council

CCP

Committee on Commodity Problems

IFAD/VII

IFAD Replenishment Consultations

CFS

Committee on World Food Security

LARC

Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean

CL

Council

 

 

COAG

Committee on Agriculture

NERC

Regional Conference for the Near East

COFI

Committee on Fisheries

PC

Programme Committee

COFO

Committee on Forestry

WFD

World Food Day

MM

Ministerial Meeting

WFP

World Food Programme Executive Board

       

* Dates changed

1 CL 66/REP, para. 301.