Revision of the General Regulations of the World Food Programme and reconstitution of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes as the Executive Board of the World Food Programme — A/RES/50/8 | UN Mandate Registry
Revision of the General Regulations of the World Food Programme and Reconstitution of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes as the Executive Board of the World Food Programme
Decides, subject to the concurrence of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, that the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes shall be reconstituted as the Executive Board of the World Food Programme, with thirty-six members elected from among the States Members of the United Nations or the States members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and that the Economic and Social Council and the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations shall elect eighteen members each, as set forth in paragraph 2 below;
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Decides also that the members of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme shall be elected on an interim basis for four years from among the States included in the lists2 set out in the Basic Texts of the World Food Programme, in accordance with the following distribution of seats, it being understood that this allocation of seats creates no precedent for the composition of other United Nations bodies of a limited membership:
Nine members from the States included in list A, five members to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and four by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
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Seven members from the States included in list B, four members to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and three by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
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Five members from the States included in list C, two members to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and three by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
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Twelve members from the States included in list D, six members to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and six by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
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Two members from the States included in list E, one member to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and one by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
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One additional member alternating between the States included in lists B and C, starting with list C, to be elected by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
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Decides further that the above-mentioned distribution of seats shall be reviewed within two years after the establishment of the Executive Board with a view to achieving its final outcome in accordance with paragraphs 25 and 30 and other relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution 48/162; that the review shall be conducted in parallel by the Assembly and the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, taking into account the relevant inputs of the Economic and Social Council and the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; and that its results shall enter into force on 1 January 2000;
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Requeststhe Economic and Social Council, at its resumed substantive session of 1995, to elect eighteen members of the Executive Board for a term beginning on 1 January 1996 in accordance with the following distribution and terms of office:
a
Five members from the States included in list A, two for a term of three years, one for a term of two years and two for a term of one year;
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Four members from the States included in list B, one for a term of three years, two for a term of two years and one for a term of one year;
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Two members from the States included in list C, one for a term of three years and one for a term of one year;
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Six members from the States included in list D, two for a period of three years, two for a period of two years and two for a period of one year;
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One member from the States included in list E, for a period of two years;
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Decides that thereafter all members of the Executive Board shall be elected for a term of three years and requests the Economic and Social Council to make such provisions as ensure that the terms of office of six members elected by each of the two Councils shall expire in each calendar year;
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Decides to approve the revised General Regulations of the World Food Programme contained in annex I of the note by the Secretary-General on the transformation of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes of the World Food Programme into an executive board,3 as endorsed by the Economic and Social Council in its decision 1995/227 and by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its one hundred and eighth session, on 12 June 1995;
Decides, subject to the concurrence of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, that the revised General Regulations shall enter into force on 1 January 1996.
