45. The Commission considered the document ALINORM 69/8 containing information on the 1968/69 budget of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme and the proposed budget for 1970/71. The Commission noted the view of the Executive Committee that the budget proposals for 1970/71 reflected the needs of the Programme for that period. The Commission was informed that the Directors-General of FAO and WHO would be submitting their budget proposals for 1970/71 shortly to the governing bodies of both Organizations. The decisions taken by the governing bodies of both Organizations would be communicated to the Executive Committee and the Commission in due course. The Commission agreed with the view of the Executive Committee that the existing arrangements, whereby countries accepting the chairmanships of Codex Committees assumed responsibility for (a) translation, printing and distribution of working documents of Codex Committees, and (b) translation, printing and distribution of reports of Codex Committees, were the most practical way of dealing with the volume of documentation and that there was no need to propose any change in the existing procedure (see Appendix II to this Report). The Commission further noted that the existing arrangements were also the most economical, and that estimates of the costs which would be involved if FAO and WHO were to assume responsibility for this work had indicated that they would be very considerable.
