APPENDIX A

AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTY—THIRD SESSION OF THE COUNCIL

1. INTRODUCTION — PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION
   1. Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable
   2. Election of Three Vice—Chairmen, and Designation of Chairman and Members of Drafting Committee
   3. Statement by the Director—General
2. WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SITUATION
   4. Current World Food Situation
   5. Report of the Eighth Session of the Committee on World Food Security
      (Rome,13—20 April 1983)
3. ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP
   6. Report of the Seventh Session of the Committee on Agriculture
      (Rome,21—30 March 1983) ¹
   7. Report of the Eighth Session of the Commission on Fertilizers
      (Rome,31 January —3 February 1983)
   8. World Food Programme:
      8.1 Eighth Annual Report of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes of the UN/FAO World Food Programme
      8.2 The Twentieth Anniversary of the UN/FAO World Food Programme
   9. Inter—Agency Relations and Consultations on Questions of Common Interest, including:
      9.1 Recent Developments in the United Nations System of Interest to FAO
      9.2 Joint Inspection Unit Reports:
   1. Fourteenth Report on the Activities of the JIU
      (July 1981 June 1982)
   2. Personnel Policy Options and Career Concept
      (JIU/REP/81/ll and JIU/REP/82/3)
   3. Organization and Methods for Official Travel
      (JIu/REP/82/7)
   4. Communications in the UN System (JIU/REP/82/6)
   5. Status of Women in the Professional Category and Above
      (JIU/REP/82/4)
   6. Economic Commission for Africa (JIU/REP/82/1)
   10. Preparations for the Twenty—second Session of the FAO Conference, including:
       10.1 Arrangements for the Session, and Provisional Timetable
       10.2 Nomination of the Chairman and Other Officers of the Conference
       10.3 Deadline for Nominations for Independent Chairman of the Council
       
   11. Preparations for the World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development
4. PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
12. Summary Programme of Work and Budget 1984—85
13. Other Budgetary Matters:
    13.1 Budgetary Performance 1982
    13.2 Programme and Budgetary Transfers
14. Financial Matters:
    14.1 Financial Position of the Organization
    14.2 Scale of Contributions 1984—85
15. Headquarters Accommodation
16. Reports of the Forty—fourth Session of the Programme Committee and the Fifty—first Session of the Finance Committee (Rome, 25 April — 6 May 1983),including:
    16.1 Appointment of the External Auditor
    16.2 Procedures for Dealing with JIU Reports
    16.3 Personnel Matters
    16.4 Other Financial Questions
    16.5 Import Licences for Equipment for Official Use
17. Revised Calendar of 1982—83 Sessions of the Council and Those Bodies which Report to the Council
5. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS
18. Constitutional and Legal Matters, including:
    18.1 FAO’s Immunity from Legal Process
    18.2 Near East Statutory Bodies:
1. Abolition of the Animal Production and Health Commission in the Near East, the Near East Plant Protection Commission, and the Commission on Horticultural Production in the Near East and North Africa and Establishment of the “Near East Regional Commission on Agriculture”
2. Abolition of the Regional Food and Nutrition Commission for the Near East, the Near East Commission on Agricultural Planning,and the Near East Commission on Agricultural Statistics and Establishment of the “Near East Regional Economic and Social Policy Commission”:
18.3 Invitations to Non—Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions
18.4 Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme Committee
6. OTHER MATTERS
19. Date and Place of the Eighty—fourth Session of the Council
20. Any Other Business
    –Ninth World Forestry Congress 1984

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¹ Including the follow—up of Conference Resolution 6/81 on Plant Genetic Resources.