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Practical
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Dates and venue  Agenda Provisional timetable of work and
organization of work
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Dates and venue |
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The 31st session will begin at
UNESCO Headquarters, 7 place de Fontenoy, Paris on
Monday 15 October. Its wortk should be completed on Saturday 3 November 2001.
Thursday 1st November is a holiday in the host country, but will be a
working day for the General Conference. No meetings are planned for
Saturdays afternoon, however the General Conference may decide
otherwise during the session if it is deemed necessary.
Times of meetings:
- General Committee: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
- Other meetings: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. -
6 p.m.
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The Executive
Board confirmed these dates at its 161st session, in May/June 2001. |
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Provisional agenda (31 C/1 Prov.) |
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The
document 31 C/1 Prov. will be available during the summer of 2001.
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The provisional agenda for ordinary
sessions of the General Conference shall be prepared by the Executive Board on the basis
of items submitted not later than one hundred days before the opening of the session. This
agenda shall be communicated to the Member States and Associate Members not less than
ninety days before the opening of the session. |
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The provisional agenda of a session shall
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(a) the report of the Director-General on
the work of the Organization since the last ordinary session of the General Conference,
presented by the Chairperson of the Executive Board;
(b) items whose inclusion has been ordered by the General Conference;
(c) items proposed by the United Nations;
(d) items proposed by any Member State or Associate Member of the Organization;
(e) items pertaining to the budget and accounts;
(f) items which the Director-General deems it necessary to raise;
(g) any other items inserted by the Executive Board. |
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Once the provisional agenda has been
circulated, the Member States and Associate Members, the Executive Board and the
Director-General may, at least six weeks before the date set for the opening of the
session, request the inclusion of supplementary items in the agenda. |
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The Executive Board shall prepare, on the
basis of the provisional agenda and the supplementary list, a revised provisional agenda
(document 31 C/1 Prov. Rev.), which shall be submitted by the Chairperson of the Executive
Board to the General Conference for approval. |
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After the deadline for the inclusion of
supplementary items, no new items can be included in the agenda, unless they are of an
important and urgent character and have been referred to the General Committee, and whose
inclusion in the agenda has been approved by the General Conference by a two-thirds
majority of the Members present and voting. |
The
provisional timetable of work will be available in 2001. |
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Organization of work (31 C/2) |
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The document 31 C/2 "Organization of work of the 31st
session" will be also available during the summer of 2001. |
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