At its 42nd plenary meeting, on 29 July 2009, the Economic and Social Council decided that the eighteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (review session) should take place from 3 to 14 May 2010, that the intergovernmental preparatory meeting for the nineteenth session of the Commission should take place from 21 to 25 February 2011 and that the nineteenth session of the Commission (policy session) should take place from 2 to 13 May 2011.