December 1996

COFO-97/Inf.1

FAO

COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY

THIRTEENTH SESSION

Rome, Italy, 10-13 March 1997

PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE

Monday 10 March 1997

08.30 - 10.00

Registration of participants
(Main Entrance, Building A)

10.00 - 13.00

Item 1:

Opening of session
Address by the Director-General

Item 2:

Adoption of agenda
(Document COFO-97/1)

Item 3:

Election of Officers and designation of Drafting Committee

Item 4:

State of the world's forests
(1997 report)

15.00 - 18.00

Item 5:

Progress towards sustainable forestry development and follow-up to UNCED including implications of the work of the Inter-gonvernmental Panel on Forests
(Document COF 97/2)

 

Tuesday 11 March 1997

09.30 - 11.00

Item 5 (continued)

11.00 - 12.30

Item 6:

Role of COFO and regional forestry commissions (document COFO 97/3)

14.30 - 16.00

Item 7:

Implications for forestry of the Plan of Action of the World Food Summit
(document COFO 97/4)

16.00 - 17.30

Item 8:

Conservation and sustainable utilization of forest genetic resources
(document COFO 97/5)

 

Wednesday 12 March 1997

09.30 - 11.30

Item 9:

Review of FAO Regular and Field Programmes, including follow-up to the requests and recommendations of the twelfth session of the Committee
(document COFO 97/6)

11.30 - 12.30

Item 10:

Medium-term perspectives (1998-2003) and Programme of Work and Budget 1998-99 priorities
(document COFO 97/7)

14.30 - 16.30

Item 10 (continued)

16.30 - 17.30

Item 11:

Decisions of FAO Governing Bodies of interest to the Committee
(document COFO 97/8)

Recommendations of other FAO Statutory Bodies in forestry of interest to the Committee
(document COFO 97/9)

Item 12:

XI World Forestry Congress (document COFO 97/10)

Item 13:

Date and place of next session

 

Thursday 13 March 1997

Morning free

14.30 - 17.30

Item 14:

Adoption of report

Item 15:

Closing of session