21. NEW INTERNATIONAL OBSERVER SCHEME (1979)

21. NEW INTERNATIONAL OBSERVER SCHEME

(from "Chairman's Report of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting")

A Technical Committee Working Group discussed the items given in the mandate developed at the Tokyo 1978 Special Meeting of the Commission.

It reported that present observer arrangements are conducted under a series of bilateral arrangements. It had been specified that the scheme might be broadened. The Working Group preferred not to offer observers to a central list but to continue the bilateral schemes. The Working Group made a series of recommendations which the Technical Committee endorsed with certain amendments. These were approved by the Commission, with the instruction to the Secretary to take any necessary action by correspondence with the Contracting Governments (Appendix 8).