Forty-ninth Regional Committee for Europe: Florence, 13 - 17 September 1999: draft provisional agenda

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION R e g i o n a l O f f i c e f o r E u r o p e C o p e n h a g e n REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR EUROPE Forty-ninth session, Florence, 1 3 – 17 September 1999 EUR/RC49/1 R ev .1 20 July 1999 03209 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH D r a f t P r o v i s i o n a l A g e n d a 1. Opening of the session (a) Election o f the President, the Executive President, the Deputy Executive President and the Rapporteur (b) Adoption o f the agenda and programme o f work 2. Review of the work of WHO (a) Statement by the Director-General (b) Statement by the Regional Director (c) Report o f the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee (including proposals for a regional agreem ent on semi-permanent membership o f the Executive Board and proposed am endm ents to the Rules of Procedure of the SCRC and the Regional Committee) (d) Collaboration with other agencies within the United Nations system and with integrational, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations in Europe 3. The future work of WHO (a) M atters arising out o f decisions of the W orld Health Assembly and the Executive Board (b) HEALTH21: the health for all policy framework for the W HO European Region: - EU R O ’s response to W HO reform and HEALTH21 - prom otion o f HEALTH21 indicators for HEALTH21, and monitoring o f progress towards health for all (c) Public health structure and function in Europe (d) Assessm ent of Phases I and II o f the European Alcohol Action Plan (1992-1999) and adoption o f Phase III o f the European Alcohol Action Plan (2000-2005) (e) Country strategy (including the description o f country work in the programme budget, and principles/criteria for determining country allocations) (f) Environm ent and health 4. Elections and nom inations (a) Nomination of a candidate for the post of Regional Director (b) Nomination of members of the Executive Board (c) Election of members of the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee (d) Election of a member o f the Policy and Coordination Committee of the Special Programme on Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (e) Election of a member o f the Management Advisory Committee of the Action Programme on Essential Drugs (f) Election o f members o f the European Environment and Health Committee 5. Other matters (a) Date and place o f the fifty-first session in 2001 (b) Other business (c) Approval of the report and closure of the forty-ninth session EUR/RC49/1 Rev.l page 2