At its 42nd plenary meeting, on 2 July 2018, the Economic and Social Council:
(a) Took note of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its sixty-first session;40
Also took note of Commission decision 55/1 of 7 December 2012;41 (b)
(c) Approved the provisional agenda for the sixty-second session of the Commission as set out below:
1
Election of officers.
2
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
Ministerial segment
3
Ministerial segment.42
Operational segment
4
Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions:
a
Work of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;
41 Ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 8A (E/2012/28/Add.1), chap. I, sect. B.
42 Subject to the outcome of negotiations on the organizational arrangements for the ministerial segment to be held during the sixty-second session of the Commission, in 2019.
b
Directives on policy and budgetary issues for the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;
c
Working methods of the Commission;
d
Staff composition of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other related matters.
Normative segment
5
Implementation of the international drug control treaties:
a
Changes in the scope of control of substances;
b
Challenges and future work of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the World Health Organization in the review of substances for possible scheduling recommendations;
c
International Narcotics Control Board;
d
International cooperation to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes while preventing their diversion;
e
Other matters arising from the international drug control treaties.
6
Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem:
a
Demandreduction and related measures;
b
Supply reduction and related measures;
c
Countering money-laundering and promoting judicial cooperation to enhance international cooperation.
7
Follow-up to the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem held in 2016, including the seven thematic areas of the outcome document of the special session.
8
Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem.
9
Recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission.
10
Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, in line with General Assembly resolution 68/1, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
11
Provisional agenda for the sixty-third session of the Commission.
12
Other business.
13
Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-second session.
