Enlargement of the Membership of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

A/RES/76/109View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 80 Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 54th session, published in 2021.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2003–2021

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2021	A/RES/76/109	Enlargement of the membership of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law	990	49%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/20	Enlargement of the membership of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law	703	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Election of Members

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the fact that the impact of an increase in the membership of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the secretariat services required to properly facilitate the work of the Commission would not be material enough to quantify and that the increase would therefore have no financial implications;

Decides to increase the membership of the Commission from 60 to 70 States, bearing in mind that the Commission is a technical body; the regional representation resulting from this increase in membership shall not be a precedent for the enlargement of other bodies in the United Nations system;

Also decides that the 10 additional members of the Commission shall be elected by the General Assembly for a term of six years in accordance with the following rules:

In electing the additional members, the General Assembly shall observe the following distribution of seats:

Two from African States;

Two from Asia-Pacific States;

iii

Two from Eastern European States;

Two from Latin American and Caribbean States;

Two from Western European and other States;

Of the 10 additional members, five, that is, one from each regional group, shall be elected at the election to be held during the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly;

The additional members elected in accordance with subparagraph (b) shall take office from the first day of the fifty-fifth session of the Commission in 2022;

The remaining five additional members, that is, one from each regional group, shall be elected at the election to be held during the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly;

The additional members elected in accordance with subparagraph (d) shall take office from the first day of the fifty-eighth session of the Commission in 2025;

The provisions of section II, paragraphs 4 and 5, of General Assembly resolution 2205 (XXI) shall also apply to the additional members;

Further decides that, when electing members of the Commission, Member States shall take into account the voluntary pledges of the candidates which outline the concrete commitments of the candidates to the work of the Commission;

Appeals to Member States, the relevant United Nations organs, organizations, institutions and individuals, in order to ensure full participation by the Member States in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to consider making voluntary contributions to the trust funds established to provide travel assistance to developing countries that are members of the Commission, as well as technical assistance, capacity-building and other forms of support as appropriate, at their request and in consultation with the secretariat;

Calls upon member States of the Commission to make efforts to achieve increased and active participation in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, which serve as an important forum for strategy and decision-making of the work of the United Nations in the field of international trade law, while giving due regard to the need to facilitate the participation of developing countries, and stresses the need to explore all appropriate means to achieve that objective;

Requests the Secretariat to periodically provide to the Commission data on the attendance of member States of the Commission and observer States at the sessions of the Commission and its working groups;

Requests the Commission to discuss and consider at its session in 2030, and subsequent sessions if necessary, issues in relation to the present resolution, including ways to promote equitable geographical representation of regional groups as well as to increase the effective participation of representatives of all Member States, while giving due regard to the adequate representation of the principal economic and legal systems of the world, and of developed and developing countries, with a view to taking further actions as necessary, including on the basis of the above-mentioned criteria.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents