-Beginning on Friday, 21 April and ending on Monday, 8 May, the three Subsidiary
Working Bodies will meet concurrently.
-Agenda items 4 and 5 shall be dealt with on the last three days of the Forum.
6. Participants may circulate written contributions on the subjects for consideration in one or more of the working languages of the CSCE prior to the Forum through the Executive Secretary to all other participating States in order to allow a thorough preparation of the relevant discussions.
7. If the Forum does not reach any agreed conclusions, proposals and projects submitted to the Forum will be forwarded to the next follow-up meeting by the Government of the host country.
8. Meetings of the Plenary and of the Subsidiary Working Bodies will be held according to the attached work programme.
9. At the opening and closing Plenary sessions, the Chair will be taken by a representative of the host country. After the opening session, the Chair will be taken in daily rotation, in French alphabetical order, starting with a representative of Sweden.
10. The Chair at the opening sessions of the Subsidiary Working Bodies will be taken by a representative of the host country. Selection of the next chairman of each Subsidiary Working Body will be by lot. The Chair will then be taken in daily rotation in French alphabetical order.
11. In conformity with paragraph 74 of the Final Recommendations of the Helsinki Consultations, the Government of the United Kingdom will designate an Executive Secretary. This designation will be subject to approval by the participating States.
12. The other rules of procedure, the working methods and the scale of distribution of the expenses of the CSCE will, mutatis mutandis, be applied to the Forum.
III. Indicative List of Themes for Discussion in the Subsidiary Working Bodies
SWB A: Printed Information with particular reference to
-Distribution of periodicals and other publications both commercially published and
official, questions relating to the import of publications.
-Access to periodicals and other publications, e.g. in reading rooms and cultural
information centres.
Questions relating to printing and publishing including access to technical means.
Contacts and exchanges between newspapers and periodicals, exchange of newspaper subscriptions.
SWB B: Filmed, Broadcast and Oral Information with particular reference to
-Access to new means of communication, including satellite and other cross-frontier
broadcasting.
-Contacts and exchanges between broadcasting companies, e.g. telebridges, joint
discussion or other programmes.
-Dissemination and use of recorded audio-visual material.
-Participation in international discussion fora.
-Public lectures, exchanges of study visits between officials and non-governmental
organizations.
-Press conferences.
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