INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
COUNCIL
GENEVA —
March 2004
2004 SESSION — (9 – 18 JUNE)
PLENARY MEETING
Note by the Secretary-General
PRELIMINARY DRAFT AGENDA OF THE 2004 SESSION OF COUNCIL
PLENARY MEETING
PL 1
General Policy, Strategy and Planning
1.1
International Telecommunication Regulations (Res. 121/PP-02)
1.2
Report on World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (Res. 113/PP-02)
1.3
Internet: UN Working Group on Internet Governance; Management of Internet Domain
Names (Res. 102(Rev PP-02)) and Role of administrations of Member States in the
management of internationalized (multilingual) domain names (Res. 133/PP-02)
1.4
Council Groups:
1.4.1 Review and consolidation of provisions regarding Observers (Res. 109/PP-02)
1.4.2 Progress report of Working Group on Financial Regulations (Res. 1210)
PL 2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
Reports for consideration by Council
Annual report of the Union (CV 102)
Operational Plans (2004-2007) (CV 87A, 181A, 205A, 223A)
World Telecommunication Day (Theme 2005)
Report of the Standing Committee on Finance
Report of the Standing Committee on Staff matters
PL 3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Conferences and meetings of the Union
Future ITU events - 2004-2006 (Res. 77(Rev PP-02))
World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07)
Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC-04)
World and Regional Telecom Exhibitions and Forums (Res. 11(Rev PP-02))
World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-06)
World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-04)
Report on Telecom Surplus (Res. 11(Rev PP-02))
Date and duration of the 2005 session of the Council
PL 4
Other matters
4.1
Report of the Group of Specialists to review the Management of the Union
(Dec. 7/PP-02)
4.2
Report of the External Consultant (Res. 1212)
4.3
Report of the Council Oversight Group (COG) (Res. 1210)
4.4
Report of the Satellite Backlog Action Group (SAT-BAG) (Res. 1182)
4.5
Report on the use of languages (Res. 115/PP-02; Res 1210)
4.6
Methods to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the RRB (Res. 119/PP-02)
4.7
Membership issues
4.7.1 Requests for exemption
4.7.2 Participation of Sector Members and Associates
4.8
Council Resolutions/Decisions that are obsolete
STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
FI 1
Examination of execution of the biennial budget 2004-2005
FI 2
Financial operating report for the biennium 2002-2003
FI 3
Report of the Council Group on processing charges for satellite network filings and
administrative procedures (Res. 88(Rev PP-02))
FI 4
Reports of the External Auditor
FI 5
Contributory shares
FI 6
Arrears and special arrears accounts
FI 7
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capital Fund
FI 8
Accounts of ITU TELECOM Africa 2001
Accounts of ITU TELECOM Asia 2002
Accounts of ITU TELECOM Americas 2003
STANDING COMMITTEE ON STAFF MATTERS
PE 1
Report on staff reductions since PP-02 following Decision 6 (PP-02) and
Resolution 48(Rev PP-02)
PE 2
Changes in the United Nations common system conditions of service – Annual Report
PE 3
Membership of the ITU Staff Pension Committee
MATTERS FOR COUNCIL’S INFORMATION1
1
Conference Budget Control Committee report on RA-03 and WRC-03
2
Report on activity of Internal Audit
3
List of debtors
4
Introduction of a policy on harassment and abuse of authority
5
Training policy
Yoshio UTSUMI
Secretary-General
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1 These documents are published in electronic form in English, French & Spanish. They can be found at the ITU Council website
(http://www.itu.int/Council/C2004/).