WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION EXECUTIVE BOARD 108th Session Provisional agenda item 6 EB108/5 4 May 2001
Governing Bodies: future sessions Report by the Secretariat
EXECUTIVE BOARD, 109th SESSION 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 109th session of the Board on Monday, 14 January 2002, at WHO headquarters, Geneva, and to close the session no later than Monday, 21 January 2002. The Programme Development Committee, the Administration, Budget and Finance Committee, and the Audit Committee would meet between 9 and 11 January 2002.
FIFTY-FIFTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY 3. Article 13 of the Constitution of WHO provides that “The Health Assembly shall meet in regular annual session”. Article 14 further provides that “The Health Assembly, at each annual session, shall select the country or region in which the next annual session shall be held, the Board subsequently fixing the place.” In accordance with Article 15, “The Board … shall determine the date of each annual ... session”. In its decision WHA30(xvi) the Thirtieth World Health Assembly requested the Executive Board to fix the duration of each session. 4. Assuming the Fifty-fourth World Health Assembly decides that the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly should be held in Switzerland, it is proposed to convene the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly on Monday, 13 May 2002, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and to close the Assembly no later than Saturday, 18 May 2002.
ACTION BY THE EXECUTIVE BOARD 5. The Executive Board may wish to consider adoption of the following decisions: The Executive Board decided that its 109th session should be convened on Monday, 14 January 2002, at WHO headquarters, Geneva, and should close no later than Monday, 21 January 2002.
EB108/5
The Executive Board decided that the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly should be held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, opening on Monday, 13 May 2002, and that it should close no later than Saturday, 18 May 2002.
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