UNGEGN meets between the 5-yearly Conferences to follow up the implementation of resolutions adopted by the Conferences and to ensure continuity of activities between Conferences. These meetings, called sessions, are held twice in between conferences (the intervening sessions) and once immediately preceding and succeeding conferences. The latter session is used to determine the composition of the bureau, to decide on the creation or disbanding of working groups, to nominate their chairs and to receive reports of the working groups.
All the items addressed during conferences are also addressed at the intervening sessions. Material is developed here to address at the conferences, or to make decisions about at the conferences, or to elaborate conference resolutions. Contact between the experts is maintained.
The session meetings are held in UN facilities with all translating infrastructure, so that all communications are translated into the 6 official UN languages.
The 27th UNGEGN session is held (on July 30 and August 10) in conjunction with the 10th UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (held July 31-August 9, 2012) in New York.
The agenda for the 26th session, held in 2011 in Vienna, was:
Provisional Agenda :
- Adoption of the Agenda
- Report of the Chair
- Report of the secretariat of the Group of Experts
- Report of the divisions
- Report of the Liaison Officers and international organizations
- Activities of the Task team for Africa
- Implementation of resolutions and activities related to the Workingh Group on Evaluation and Implementation
- Activities related to the Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy
- Activities related to the Working Group on Toponymic data files and gazetteers
- Activities related to the Working Group on Toponymic Terminology
- Activities related to the Working Group on Romanization systems
- Activities related to the Working Group on Country Names
- Activities related to the Working Group on Publicity and Funding
- Activities related to the Working Group on Exonyms
- Activities related to the Working Group on Pronunciation
- Activities related to the Working Group on the Promotion of the recording and use of indigenous, minority and regional language group geographical names
- Geographical names and cultural heritage
- Issues of toponymic standardization
- Toponymic guidelines for map editors and other editors
- other toponymic issues
- preparation for the Tenth United Nations Conference ion the Standardization of Geographic Names
- Provisional agenda for the 27th session of the Group of Experts
- Adoption of the Report
