REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

CL 80/REP

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

Eightieth Session
Rome, 3-5 November 1981

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME
1981

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1981)

Independent Chairman: Bukar Shaib

Afghanistan³	Germany, Federal Republic of²	Panama²
Angola³	Ghana¹	Poland³
Argentina²	India¹	Portugal²
Australia¹	Indonesia²	Romania³
Bangladesh²	Ireland³	Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of¹
Barbados³	Italy¹	Senegal¹
Botswana¹	Ivory Coast²	Sri Lanka¹
Brazil³	Japan²	Sweden¹
Canada³	Kenya³	Syria²
China²	Kuwait¹	Thailand²
Colombia³	Lebanon³	United Kingdom¹
Congo³	Madagascar¹	United Republic of Cameroon²
Cuba³	Malaysia²	United States of America³
Egypt¹	Mexico³	Venezuela²
El Salvador¹	Morocco³	Yugoslavia²
France¹	Nigeria³	Zambia²
	Pakistan

¹Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-first Session of the Conference, November 1981.

² Term of office until 31 December 1982.

³Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-second Session of the Conference, November 1983.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL

INTRODUCTION

Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable

Election of Three Vice-Chairmen, and Designation of Chairman and Members of the Drafting Committee

PREPARATIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST SESSION OF THE FAO CONFERENCE

Nomination of the Chairman of the Conference, and of the Chairmen of the Commissions of the Conference

Election of the Nominations Committee

Nomination of the Chairman of the Informal Meeting of Observers of Non-governmental Organizations

ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP

Report of the Fifty-third Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems (Rome, 14-18 September 1981)

Progress in International Agricultural Adjustment

World Food Programme : Proposed Pledging Target for 1983-84 (Res,180)

INTER-AGENCY RELATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS ON MATTERS OF COMMON INTEREST

Recent Developments in the United Nations System of Interest to FAO

UN Joint Inspection Unit Report - Assistance by the United Nations System to Regional Inter-Country Technical Cooperation Institutions

PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Programme of Work and Budget, 1982-83 and Medium-term Objectives (including Agricultural Research in Developing Countries)

Review of the Regular Programme, 1980-81

Review of Field Programmes (including Agricultural Investment and Development Assistance for Food Production and Rural Development and Support Costs)

Other Programme, Budgetary, Financial and Administrative Matters arising out of the Forty-first Session of the Programme Committee and the Forty-eighth Session of the Finance Committee

- Financial Position of the Organization

(a) Contributions Matters

(b) Special Reserve Account

(c) Working Capital Fund

(d) Authority to Borrow (Res. 280)

- Audited Accounts

- Personnel Matters

- Headquarters Accommodation

- Prevention of Food Losses

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and the Asian Development Bank

Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme and Finance Committees

Invitations to International Non-governmental Organizations which do not have Status with FAO

OTHER MATTERS

Any Other Business

- Second Report on Unscheduled and Cancelled Sessions in the 1980-81 Biennium

- Site of the Ninth World Forestry Congress, 1984

Date and Place of the Eighty-first Session of the Council

APPENDICES

- Agenda for the Eightieth Session

- List of Delegates and Observers

- List of Documents

- Contributions to the Budget of the Organization outstanding at 4 November 1981

- Unscheduled Sessions Approved and Approved Sessions Cancelled between 1 October 1980 and 1 October 1981