of experts or to the Commission's scientific 

 advisory bodies. 



Recommendation 9»15 



The Bureau J having examined together with the 

 Consultative Council the situation with preparation 

 of summary records of meetings of the Commission 

 itself and of its subsidiary bodies, records its 

 opinion that, while the direct responsibility for 

 preparing these summary records rests with the IOC 

 Secretariat in accordance with the Commission's Rules 

 of Procedure, Members of the Commission and individual 

 experts may assist the Secretariat in this task through 

 the election by each working, coordination or expert 

 group of a rapporteur whose precise functions should 

 be defined in each specific case through informal 

 consultations between the Chairman of the Group and 

 the Secretary or his representative. The decision 

 whether or not to elect a rapporteur to assist the 

 Secretariat should be made in each specific case 

 by the group in question. 



Recommendation 9ol6 



The Bureau and Consultative Council, taking 

 note of the experience that in most cases the work 

 of a working group or other subsidiary body had 

 been hampered by the fact that its chairman was 

 only elected by this body at its first meeting, 

 expresses the view that the Chairman should be 

 appointed as early as possible in order to enable 

 him to prepare the meeting adequately. According 

 to Rule 23 (2) of the Rules of Procedure the chair- 

 man shall be designated by the Bureau or elected 

 by the working group. The latter can be done 

 through correspondence well before the first meeting. 



8.vi. Upper Mantle Research Program and Geotraverses 



Dr. Fedorov introduced this item informing the meeting of the 

 steps taken by the Secretariat to implement Resolution V-12 

 of the last IOC Session. He stated that a number of countries 

 expressed their interest in the proposed United States geo- 

 traverse program and that the USSR had offered to detach a 



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