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CL 84/5
Decides to amend Rule XXXIX.3 of the General Rules of the Organization to read as follows:
"The Director-General, with the approval of the Council, shall promulgate such general staff regulations as may be necessary, including the requirement of a declaration of loyalty to the Organization. The Director-General shall have authority to promulgate Staff Regulations to give effect to decisions of the International Civil Service Commission (.), as well as to give effect to recom- mendations of the International Civil Service Commission which have been ap- proved by the General Assembly of the United Nations with regard to the salaries and allowances of the staff in the professional and higher categories. He shall report the promulgation of such Staff Regulations to the Finance Committee and* the Council.'
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II
Noting that the amendment to Rule XXXIX.3 calls for a consequential amendment to Staff Regulation 301.122;
Decides that the following sentence shall be added at the end of Staff Regulation 301.122:
"The Director-General may also amend the Staff Regulations to give effect to recommendations of the International Civil Service Commission which have been approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations and relate to the salaries and allowances of the staff in the professional and higher categories."
III.
AMENDMENTS TO THE PLANT PROTECTION AGREEMENT FOR THE ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION
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The CCLM was informed that the Plant Protection Commission for the Asia and Pacific Region had, at its Thirteenth Session, held in Manila in April 1983, endorsed amendments to the Agreement which had been prepared by the FAO Secretariat on the Commission's request.
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The CCLM noted that in accordance with Article IX.2 of the Agreement, proposed amend- ments thereto must be presented to the FAO Council for approval and that the Director- General had referred the amendments to the CCLM for review before they were considered by the Council.
10. Since the proposed amendments dealt with two distinct matters: (a) the introduction of mandatory contributions by Contracting Governments; and (b) the amendment of the defini- tion of the Region in order to include the People's Republic of China, the CCLM considered the amendments covered by (a) and (b) separately.
(a)
Amendments relating to mandatory contributions
11. In the course of its review of the amendments that had been endorsed by the Commission, the CCLM was informed that the use of the term "cash" in the proposed paragraph 3 of new Article III of the Agreement, was clearly intended to distinguish from contributions in kind and that in fact the use of this term was used in the Basic Texts of the Organization in that same sense.
12. It also noted that paragraph 3 of new Article III, which was concerned with payment of contributions, actually covered two aspects: the first being the requirement that contri- butions be made in cash and the second being the procedures for determining the currency of payment which would be acceptable when paying such contributions. The CCLM was advised that there would be consultations among representatives of the Contracting Governments and the Commission's Secretariat when establishing its budget, and would be subject to final approval by the Director-General of the Organization.
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