CL 125/INF/8


Council

Hundred and Twenty-fifth Session

Rome, 26-28 November 2003

REVISED CALENDAR OF FAO GOVERNING BODIES AND OTHER MAIN SESSIONS 2003-2004


1. At its Sixty-sixth Session (June 1975) the Council, after concluding that the number of Sessions and their programming was a fundamental problem, requested that "an annotated schedule for the next biennium of Sessions of the Council itself and those Bodies which report to the Council should be submitted to the Sixty-eighth Council Session for approval, after adoption by the Conference of the Programme of Work and Budget and that this schedule should be reviewed at subsequent Sessions of the Council as required".1

2. Appendix A gives for information the Revised Calendar of FAO Governing Bodies and Other Main Sessions for 2003-2004. Sessions already held during the biennium are listed so as to enable the Council to have a complete picture of the pattern of sessions for the period 2003-2004. Changes from Appendix F to the final Report of the Hundred and Twenty-fourth Session of the Council are marked with an asterisk.

3. The Council at its Hundred and Twenty-sixth Session in December 2003 will be given the Provisional Calendar 2004-2005 to approve the Calendar for 2004.

Harmonizing Schedules of FAO, IFAD and WFP
Governing Body Sessions

4. The Secretariats of FAO, IFAD and WFP, in an endeavour to harmonize the sessions of the respective Governing Bodies which require the participation of Permanent Representatives in Rome, established an Inter-Agency Working Group on Meeting Programming to prepare a calendar of main sessions on a two-year rolling basis.

5. Appendix B gives for information the Revised FAO/IFAD/WFP Calendar of Governing and Other Bodies 2003-2004 prepared jointly by the Working Group in an effort to avoid overlapping. The dates for each organization are subject to the approval of the respective Governing Bodies.

 

Appendix A

REVISED CALENDAR OF FAO GOVERNING BODIES
AND OTHER MAIN SESSIONS 2003-2004

 

2003

2004

JANUARY

   

FEBRUARY

25 COFI

24 – 28

18 COAG

9 - 10

MARCH

16 COFO
64 CCP
17 COAG

10 - 14
18 - 21
31/3 - 4/4

23 ARC
27 NERC
76 CCLM

1 - 5
13 - 17
29 – 30

APRIL

 

28 LARC

26 - 30

MAY

89 PC
102 FC
29 CFS
103 FC

5 - 9
5 - 9
12 - 16
19 - 20

24 ERC
91 PC
106 FC
27 APRC

5 - 7
10 - 14
10 - 14
17 - 21

JUNE

124 CL

23 - 28

 

JULY

   

AUGUST

   

SEPTEMBER

90 PC
104 FC
12 WFC
75 CCLM

15 - 19
15 - 19
21 - 28
30/09 - 1/10

92 PC
107 FC
30 CFS

13 - 17
13 - 17
20 - 24

OCTOBER

105 FC
WFD

6 – 7*
16

77 CCLM
WFD

5 - 6
15 (Fri)

NOVEMBER

125 CL
32 C

26 - 28
29/11 - 10/12

127 CL

22 - 27

DECEMBER

126 CL

11

 
         
 

Eid Al-Adha:

12 Feb 03

Eid Al-Adha:

1 Feb 04

 

Easter:

20 Apr 03

Easter:

11 Apr 04

 

Ramadan:

27 Oct - 24 Nov 03

Ramadan:

16 Oct - 13 Nov 04

 

Eid Al-Fitr:

25 Nov 03

Eid Al-Fitr:

14 Nov 04

         

APRC

Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific

COFO

Committee on Forestry

ARC

Regional Conference for Africa

ERC

Regional Conference for Europe

C

Conference

FC

Finance Committee

CCLM

Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

LARC

Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean

CCP

Committee on Commodity Problems

NERC

Regional Conference for the Near East

CFS

Committee on World Food Security

PC

Programme Committee

CL

Council

WFC

World Forestry Congress

COAG

Committee on Agriculture

WFD

World Food Day

COFI

Committee on Fisheries

 

 

  

Appendix B

REVISED CALENDAR OF FAO/IFAD/WFP GOVERNING BODIES
AND OTHER MAIN SESSIONS 2003-2004

 

2003

2004

JANUARY

   

FEBRUARY

WFP
IFAD/GC
25 COFI

5 - 7
17 - 21
24 - 28

18 COAG
IFAD/GC
WFP

9 - 10
16 - 20
23 - 27

MARCH

16 COFO
64 CCP
17 COAG

10 - 14
18 - 21
31/3 - 4/4

23 ARC
27 NERC
76 CCLM

1 - 5
13 - 17
29 - 30

APRIL

IFAD/EB

14 - 17

IFAD/EB
28 LARC

19 - 23
26 - 30

MAY

89 PC
102 FC
29 CFS
103 FC
WFP

5 - 9
5 - 9
12 - 16
19 - 20
28/5 - 3/6

24 ERC
91 PC
106 FC
27 APRC
WFP

WFP

5 - 7
10 - 14
10 - 14
17 - 21
24 – 28

31/5 – 4/6

JUNE

124 CL

23 - 28

 

JULY

   

AUGUST

   

SEPTEMBER

IFAD/EB
90 PC
104 FC
12 WFC
75 CCLM

8 - 12
15 - 19
15 - 19
21 - 28
30/09 - 1/10

IFAD/EB
92 PC
107 FC
30 CFS

6 - 10
13 - 17
13 - 17
20 - 24

OCTOBER

105 FC
WFD
WFP

6 – 7*
16
20 - 24

77 CCLM
WFD
WFP

5 - 6
15 (Fri)
18 - 22

NOVEMBER

125 CL
32 C

26 - 28
29/11 - 10/12

127 CL
IFAD/EB

22 - 27
29/11 - 3/12

DECEMBER

126 CL
IFAD/EB

11
15 - 19

 
         
 

Eid Al-Adha:

12 Feb 03

Eid Al-Adha:

1 Feb 04

 

Easter:

20 Apr 03

Easter:

11 Apr 04

 

Ramadan:

27 Oct - 24 Nov 03

Ramadan:

16 Oct - 13 Nov 04

 

Eid Al-Fitr:

25 Nov 03

Eid Al-Fitr:

14 Nov 04

         

APRC

Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific

COFI

Committee on Fisheries

ARC

Regional Conference for Africa

COFO

Committee on Forestry

C

Conference

ERC

Regional Conference for Europe

CCLM

Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

FC

Finance Committee

CCP

Committee on Commodity Problems

NERC

Regional Conference for the Near East

CFS

Committee on World Food Security

PC

Programme Committee

CL

Council

WFC

World Forestry Congress

COAG

Committee on Agriculture

WFD

World Food Day

LARC

Regional Conference for Latin America and The Carreabean

WFP

World Food Programme Executive Board

 

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1 CL 66/REP, para. 301.