Recommendations 9.13-9'l6 were adopted under this agenda 

 Item. 



Recommendation 9 '13 



In order to facilitate the preparation by the 

 Secretariat and examination by the Commission 

 the doc\imentatlon pertaining to the work of the 

 Commission's subsidiary bodies^ the Bureau advises 

 all Chairmen of the IOC subsidiary bodies to adopt 

 the following practice: Subsidiary bodies (working, 

 coordination and expert groups) would adopt during 

 their meetings as short and as concise recommenda- 

 tions as possible on the matters under consldera- 

 tlon. No summary records of discussions should be 

 Included in the reports and presented to the Com- 

 mission's sessions unless there would be specific 

 requests from participants to go on record with 

 certain statements or a group would Itself decide 

 to record a certain part of its discussion. A 

 typical summary report of a group would then con- 

 sist of the following parts: 



(1) Record of election of officers, 



adoption of the agenda, and procedures 

 taken ^ 



(11) Recommendations of the meeting; 



(ill) List of participants; 



(iv) Annexes as may be needed. 



Recommendation 9»1^ 



In order to keep a system of subsidiary bodies 

 of the Commission as efficient as possible and to 

 avoid further increase In their number and the number 

 of their meetings, the Bureau recommends that, each 

 time there appears to be a matter for the examina- 

 tion of which a subsidiary body should be created, 

 the Coimnlsslon consider whether this matter may 

 best be treated by an intergovernmental working group 

 or by a small group of experts. The Commission may 

 also review on a regular basis the situation with 

 the existing intergovernmental working groups and 

 decide whether those tasks which still remain to 

 be solved by them and, in particular, technical 

 tasks, may best be passed on to small ad hoc groups 



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