APPENDIX A
AGENDA

PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION

1. Adoption of the Agenda

2. Election of Vice-Chairmen

WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION

3. State of Food and Agriculture 1964

4. Commodity Problems

   • Report of the Thirty-Seventh Session of the CCP, Rome, 22 September–1 October 1964

5. Matters arising from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, March-June 1964

6. International Rice Year, 1965

   • Report of the Twelfth Session of the Conference, paragraphs 65–69

ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION

7. Program Activities

   1. Fisheries Division
   2. Forestry and Forest Products Division

   3. Nutrition Division

8. Matters arising from ECOSOC Session of July 1964

9. Report on activities of the Organization under EPTA and United Nations Special Fund

10. Agreement between FAO and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/IDA

11. 1970 World Census

    • In accordance with Resolution No. 20/63 of the Twelfth Conference Session, the Council is to explore, in consultation with Member Nations, the creation of a census fund, and report to the next Conference Session. An Ad Hoc Working Party of Member Nations is to be appointed by the Council.

12. Freedom from Hunger Campaign

    1. Progress of the Campaign
    2. Report of Committee-of-the-Whole on the future of the Campaign

    3. Strengthening of the Fertilizer Program

13. Action arising from the Report of the Eighth Session of the Program Committee (1964)

    1. FAO's role in Fishery development

       • see also Twelfth Conference Resolution No. 8/63

    2. Regional structure of FAO

       • see also Report of Eleventh Session of Finance Committee

    3. Relationship of the field programs and the Regular Program; report on developments

       • see also Report of Eleventh Session of Finance Committee and Report of the Twelfth Session of the Conference, paragraphs 455–468

    4. Panels and groups of experts

       • The Eleventh Session of the Conference requested the Council to undertake the study of panels, committees and working parties composed of experts appointed in an individual capacity. (See Report of the Eleventh Session, paragraph 107). The Program Committee was entrusted with this study and already reported on it to the Fortieth Session of the Council, June 1963.

    5. Establishment of Advisory Committee of Wood-Based Panel Products

    6. Other matters arising from the Report of the Eighth Session of the Program Committee

14. Reports of Technical Commissions

    1. European Commission on Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease

       • The agreement setting up the Commission lays down that its reports are submitted to the Council. The Commission held its Eleventh Session from 24–26 March.

    2. Rational utilization of tuna resources in the Atlantic Ocean

       • Report of the First Session of the Working Party, Rome, October 1963 and subsequent developments

15. Progress report on co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency

16. Statement by Director-General on his current ideas concerning the Program of Work for 1966/67

WORLD FOOD PROGRAM

17. Second Annual Report of the UN/FAO Intergovernmental Committee of the World Food Program

    • The Intergovernmental Committee will convene in Geneva in July 1964

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL QUESTIONS

18. Methods of work of the Council

    • Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Methods of Work of the Council and comments thereon by the Program and Finance Committees

19. Increase in the number of Council seats

20. Technical Committees of the Conference

    • The Council may wish to decide upon the timing of the meetings of the Technical Committees in relation to the date of the Thirteenth Conference Session (see Report of the Thirty-Ninth Council Session, paragraphs 187–191)

21. Statutes and Rules of Procedure of Article VI Bodies

22. Action arising from the Report of the Eleventh Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

    1. Establishment of Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa, within the framework of FAO

       • See also Report of the Eleventh Session of the Finance Committee

    2. Other constitutional and legal matters

ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL QUESTIONS

23. Action arising from Report of Eleventh Session of Finance Committee (1964)

    1. Financial Position of the Organization

    2. Emergency Fund for the Control of Livestock Disease

       • See also provisional report of the Twelfth Session of the Conference, paragraphs 422–425

    3. Codex Alimentarius Commission: financial implications of amendment to Statutes and adoption of rules of procedure
       • Amendment to Article 9 of the Statutes

       • See also provisional report of Twelfth Session of Conference, paragraphs 505–509

    4. Funding of Compensation Plan Reserve Fund

    5. Format of and documentation on the Program of Work and Budget for 1966/67

       • See also Report of Eighth Session of Program Committee and Twelfth Conference Resolution No. 31/63

    6. Recruitment of Professional Staff

       • See also report of Eighth Session of Program Committee and provisional report of the Fortieth Session of the Council, paragraph 208

    7. Criteria, Guidelines and Procedures for Recognition of Merit

       • See also Report of the Eighth Session of Program Committee and Provisional Report of the Fortieth Session of the Council, paragraphs 215–219

    8. General Service salary scale: Rome: Amendment of procedure for between-survey adjustments

       • See also provisional report of the Fortieth Session of the Council, paragraph 178

    9. Developments in post adjustments and cost-of-living adjustments

    10. Headquarters Accommodation

    11. Other questions arising from the Report of the Finance Committee

    12. United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund - Amendment of Pensionable Remuneration

24. Other administrative and financial questions

APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

25. Appointment of Chairman and alternate Chairman of Appeals Committee

OTHER MATTERS

26. 1. Draft agreement with the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO)

    2. FAO Membership on the Joint FAO/UNICEF Policy Committee

    3. Union of the Republics of Tanganyika and Zanzibar

    4. Requests received from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for admission as observer to two recent FAO sessions

    5. Application for Associate Membership presented by the United Kingdom on behalf of the three territories which until the end of 1963 comprised the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

    6. Date and place of Forty-Fourth Session of the Council