43. The Commission had before it the Report of the Twelfth Session of the Executive Committee (ALINORM 69/3, paragraph 45 and Appendix), and a working paper prepared by the Secretariat (ALINORM 69/47 and Appendix), containing the recommendations of the Executive Committee as to criteria to be met for the establishment of work priorities and for the establishment of subsidiary bodies of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
44. During the discussion it was noted that these criteria were necessary to assist the Commission in establishing its priorities. These criteria were adopted with the following modifications:
Criterion No. 2 dealing with consumer protection in paragraph (A) “Criteria applicable to commodities”, will become criterion No. 1;
Criterion No. 1, dealing with the volume of production and pattern of trade, will become criterion No. 2 and include a reference to volume of consumption in individual countries.
The amended version of the Guidelines is contained in Appendix IX to this Report and it was agreed that these guidelines should be published in the second edition of the Procedural Manual.
