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The MAB-ICC is meeting to review progress made in the implementation of the 25th session recommendations and of the Madrid action plan adopted at its 20th session (MAP, Madrid, February 2008). It will discuss the MAB strategy, especially in the light of the C/4 and the Resolution 33 of the General Conference.

Important decisions on new sites for UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves - as well as on MAB Young Scientists Awards and the Michel Batisse Award for biosphere reserves management - will be taken by the Council.
The Council is composed of 34 UNESCO Member States, elected by UNESCO's General Conference, respecting: equitable geographical distribution; appropriate rotation; the representativeness of these States from the ecological viewpoint on each continent; and of the importance of their scientific contribution to the international MAB programme.

Each Council Member State may send as many experts or advisers as it deems necessary to the Council session, but it only has one vote.

Representatives of the Member States and Associate Members of UNESCO which are not members of the Council may nevertheless attend, as observers, meetings of the Council and its committees. Representatives of the United Nations, UNESCO, the FAO, the WHO and the WMO may take part, without the right to vote, in all meetings of the Council, of its committees and working groups. Representatives of the International Council for Science, the International Social Science Council and the World Conservation Union may take part, without the right to vote, in all meetings of the Council and of its committees and working groups.