Date and place of the 145th session of the Executive Board: report of the Director-General

EXECUTIVE BOARD EB144/42 144th session 14 December 2018 Provisional agenda item 7.8 Date and place of the 145th session of the Executive Board Report of the Director-General 1. Article 26 of the Constitution of WHO provides that “The Board shall meet at least twice a year and shall determine the place of each meeting.” Rule 5 of the Rules of Procedure of the Executive Board provides that the Board “shall determine at each session the time and place of its next session”. 2. It is proposed to convene the 145th session of the Executive Board on Wednesday, 29 May and Thursday, 30 May 2019, at WHO headquarters, Geneva. 3. An advance copy of the draft provisional agenda of the 145th session of the Executive Board is provided at Annex, for the information of Member States. ACTION BY THE EXECUTIVE BOARD 4. The Executive Board may wish to adopt the following draft decision: The Executive Board decided that its 145th session should be convened on 29 and 30 May 2019, at WHO headquarters, Geneva. 2 EB144/42 ANNEX EXECUTIVE BOARD EB145/1 (draft) 145th session Geneva, May 2019 Draft provisional agenda 1. Election of Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and Rapporteur 2. Opening of the session and adoption of the agenda 3. Outcome of the Seventy-second World Health Assembly 4. Report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board 5. Technical and health matters 5.1 Standardization of medical devices nomenclature 6. Managerial, administrative and financial matters 6.1 Evaluation: annual report 6.2 Membership of the Independent Expert Oversight Advisory Committee [if any] 6.3 Hosted partnerships • Proposals for WHO to host formal partnerships [if any] • Report on hosted partnerships • Review of hosted partnerships 6.4 Committees of the Executive Board: filling of vacancies 6.5 Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules [if any] 7. Staffing matters 7.1 Statement by the representative of the WHO staff associations 7.2 Human Resources annual report 7.3 Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules [if any] EB144/42 3 8. Matters for information 8.1 Report on meetings of expert committees and study groups 9. Future sessions of the Executive Board and the Health Assembly 10. Closure of the session = = =