APPENDIX A
AGENDA FOR THE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL

1. Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable
2. Election of Three Vice-Chairmen, and Designation of the Chairman and Members of the Drafting Committee
3. Statement by the Director-General

II. WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION

4. Preparations for the World Food Summit
5. Report of the Twentieth Session of the Committee on World Food Security (Rome, 25-28 April 1995) including the Current World Food Situation

III. ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP

6. Report of the Thirteenth Session of the Committee on Agriculture (Rome, 27-31 March 1995)
7. Report of the Twenty-first Session of the Committee on Fisheries (Rome, 10-15 March 1995), including the Revised Draft of Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
8. Report of the Twelfth Session of the Committee on Forestry (Rome, 13-17 March 1995)
9. Eleventh World Forestry Congress 1997
10. Report of the Sixtieth Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems (Rome, April 1995)
11. World Food Programme:
    11.1 Twentieth Annual Report of the WFP Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes
    11.2 WFP Audited Accounts 1992-93
    11.3 Implementation of UN General Assembly Resolutions 48/162 and 47/199: Transformation of the CFA into an Executive Board and Revision of the General Regulations of WFP
12. Collaboration within the UN System and with Other Organizations including Outcome of the Third Session of CSD
13. Preparations for the Twenty-eighth Session of the FAO Conference:
    13.1 Arrangements for the Session and Provisional Timetable
    13.2 Deadline for Nominations for Independent Chairman of the Council
    13.3 Nomination of the Chairman and Other Officers of the Conference

IV. PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

14. Director-General's Progress Report on Implementation of Decisions of the Council at its Hundred and Sixth Session
15. Programme Evaluation Report 1994-95
16. Summary Programme of Work and Budget 1996-97
17. Reports of the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Sessions of the Programme Committee including Review of Programmes
18. Reports of the Eightieth and Eighty-first Sessions of the Finance Committee:
    18.1 Financial Position of the Organization
    18.2 Budgetary Performance 1994
    18.3 Scale of Contributions 1996-97
    18.4 Other Matters arising out of the Reports

V. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

19. Report of the Sixty-fourth Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters (Rome, 10-12 April 1995)
20. Other Constitutional and Legal Matters:
    20.1 Invitations to Non-Member Nations to attend FAO Sessions
    20.2 Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme and Finance Committees
    20.3 Applications for Membership in the Organization

VI. OTHER MATTERS

21. Fiftieth Anniversary of FAO: Draft Declaration on Food and Agriculture
22. Revised Calendar of FAO Governing Bodies and Other Main Sessions 1994-95
23. Date and Place of the Hundred and Ninth Session of the Council
24. Any Other Business