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COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY |
FOURTEENTH SESSION |
Rome, Italy, 1-5 March 1999 |
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE |
| Monday, 1 March 1999 | ||
| 8h.30 - 10h.00 | Registration
of participants
(Main Entrance, Building A) |
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| 10h.00 -13h.00 | Item 1 | Opening of the Session
Address by the Director-General (all COFO sessions in the Red Room, Building A, 1st floor) |
| Item 2 | Adoption of the Agenda
(Documents: COFO-99/1, COFO-99/INF.1/Rev.1) |
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| Item 3 | Election of officers and
designation of the Drafting
Committee |
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| Item 4 | State of the world's forests
(SOFO 1999 report, for information) |
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| 14h.30 - 17h.30 | Item 5 | UNCED follow-up, including
implications of the
work of the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (Document: COFO-99/2) |
| 18h.00-20h.00 | Reception offered by FAO (Cafeteria, Building B, Eighth floor) | |
| Tuesday, 2 March 1999 | ||
| 9h.30 - 12h.30 | Item 6 | Global forest sector outlook
(Document: COFO-99/3) |
| 14h.30 - 17h.30 | Item 7 | National forestry policies
for sustainability: national
and international challenges (Document: COFO-99/4) |
| Side meetings: | ||
| 17.30 - 18.30 | International Model Forest Network (Canada Room, A-356) | |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | FAO information
meetings on emerging issues: forest fires
and opportunities for the forest sector within the Kyoto Protocol (Red Room, Building A, 1st floor) |
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| 18.30 - 20.30 | Meeting
of the Bureaux of the Regional Forestry Commissions
(Lebanon Room, D-209) |
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| Wednesday, 3 March 1999 | ||
| 9h.30 - 12h.30 | Item 8 | Review of FAO programmes
in the forestry sector,
including follow-up to the requests and recommendations of the Thirteenth Session of the Committee (Documents: COFO-99/5, COFO-99/5/Supp.1 and COFO-99/INF.6) |
| Item 9 | Le Cadre stratégique
de la FAO, 2000-2015 et ses répercussions à moyen terme sur
les programmes forestiers
(documents COFO-99/6, COFO-99/6/Supp.1, COFO-99/6/Supp.2 et COFO-99/Inf.3) |
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| 14h.30 - 17h.30 | Item 9 | (suite) |
| Item 10 | Decisions of FAO Governing
Bodies of interest to the
Committee, including follow-up to Conference Resolution 13/97 (Review of FAO Statutory Bodies) |
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| Item 11 | Recommendations of the
Regional Forestry Commissions
and of other FAO Statutory Bodies in forestry of interest to the Committee (Document: COFO-99/8) |
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| Side meetings | ||
| 17.30 - 19.00 | Standing
Committee on Commonwealth Forestry
(Canada Room, A-356) |
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| 17.30 - 19.30 | Presentation
by the FAO Forestry Department of the enhanced
presence on the Internet (Red Room, Building A, 1st floor) |
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| Thursday, 4 March 1999 | ||
| 9h.30 - 12h.30 | Item 12 | Submissions by countries
interested in hosting the
XII World Forestry Congress (Document: COFO-99/9 to be tabled, no prior distribution) |
| Item 13 | Date and place of next Session | |
| Afternoon free | ||
| Side meeting | ||
| 14.30 - 18.00 | Meeting
of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Forests (ITFF)
(Pakistan Room, A-372) |
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| Friday, 5 March 1999 | ||
| 09.30 - 12.30 | Item 14 | Adoption of the Report |
| Item 15 | Closing of the Session | |
| Side meetings | ||
| 09h.00 - 12h.30 | Meeting
of the Forestry Advisors Group (FAG) (continuing on 6 March)
(Canada Room, A-356) |
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| 14h.30 - 16h.30 | Joint meeting
of the Forestry Advisors Group and the Inter-Agency Task
Force on Forests (Lebanon Room, D-209) |
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| 16h.30 - 18h.00 | Joint meeting
of NGOs and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Forests
(Lebanon Room, D-209) |
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