At its 36th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2019, the Economic and Social Council:
(a) Took note of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its sixty-second session;22
(b) Also took note of Commission decision 55/1 of 7 December 2012;23
(c) Approved the provisional agenda of the sixty-third session of the Commission as set out below:
1
Election of officers.
2
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
3
General debate.
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;
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, the World Health Organization and the International Narcotics Control Board 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.
23 Ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 8A (E/2012/28/Add.1), chap. I, sect. B.
Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels of all commitments, as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, to address and counter the world drug problem:
a
Consideration of the improved and streamlined annual report questionnaire, as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019.24
7
Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem.
8
Recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission.
9
Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, in line with General Assembly resolution 72/305, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
10
Provisional agenda of the sixty-fourth session of the Commission.
11
Other business.
12
Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-third session.
