Twenty-ninth session
11-14 February 1997
Item 16 of the provisional agenda*
1. The Economic and Social Council, in its resolution 1894 (LVII), requested the Secretary-General to submit, at each session of a functional commission or subsidiary body of the Council, a draft provisional agenda for its following session and to indicate the documents to be submitted under each agenda item and the legislative authority for their preparation.
2. In its resolution 1979/41, the Economic and Social Council decided that the provisional agenda for its subsidiary bodies, together with the list of requested documentation, should be submitted to the Council for its review, in order, inter alia, to establish greater consistency between the documentation of those bodies and the overall documentation requested by the Council and other subsidiary bodies and greater consistency between the requests for documentation and the medium-term plan and the programme budget.
3. In its resolution 1982/50 on the revitalization of its work, the Economic and Social Council endorsed the recommendation of the Secretary-General that the documentation and programme of work of the subsidiary bodies of the Council should also be streamlined in order to enable them to perform effectively the functions entrusted to them.
4. The draft provisional agenda will be modified at the present session, in the light of resolutions and decisions adopted and requests made by the Commission during the present session, and will be submitted to the Economic and Social Council for review, in accordance with Council resolution 1979/41.
The draft provisional agenda is as follows:
1. Election of officers.
2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
Documentation
Provisional agenda and annotations
Note by the Secretariat on the organization of the work of the session
Note by the Secretariat on the state of preparation of documentation for the session
3. Coordination and integration of international statistical programmes.
Documentation
Report of the Working Group on International Statistical Programmes and Coordination on its nineteenth (1998) session
Report of the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) Subcommittee on Statistical Activities on its thirty-first (1997) and thirty-second (1998) sessions
4. Programme questions and related matters.
Documentation
Draft programme of work of the Statistical Division of the United Nations for the biennium 2000-2001; proposals concerning the medium-term plan for statistics
5. Provisional agenda for the thirty-first session of the Commission.
6. Report of the Commission on its thirtieth session.