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"ON BEHALF MEMBERS INTERGOVERNMENTAL OC E A NOG RA PHIC COMMISSION 

 THANKS YOUR CABLE BEST WISHES FOR SMOOTH SAILING AND SUCCESSFUL 

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BRUUN 

 Chairman 



II. ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION 



6. In accordance with Article 7 (3) of the IOC Statutes, the Commission formally invited those 

 intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations which had been informed by the Director- 

 General of Unesco of the convening of the first session of the Commission to participate in the 

 work of the Commission. (List of Organizations at Annex II). 



7. The Commission also decided that, in view of the importance of the first session, it would be 

 desirable to elect first a temporary Bureau and a Steering Committee to serve during the first 

 session only. A Permanent Bureau would, in accordance with Article 6 of the Statutes, be 

 elected by the end of the session. A change was accordingly made in Article 10 of the Draft 

 Provisional Rules of Procedure submitted to the Commission. (See Annex III). 



8. The Commission set up its Bureau for the duration of the session as follows: 



Chairman: Dr. A. BRUUN (Denmark) 



Vice- Chairmen: Dr. W.M. Cameron (Canada) 



Vice-Admiral V.A. Tchekourov (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) 



This Bureau, together with the following eight selected representatives, constituted the Steering 

 Committee of the session: 



Captain R.H.R. Bagnati (Argentina) 



Professor H. Lacombe (France) - Rapporteur 



Dr. D.G. Meseck (Federal Republic of Germany) 



Dr. N.K. Panikkar (India) 



Mr. M. Toda (Japan) 



Professor S. Szymborski (Poland) 



Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald Day (United Kingdom) 



The Hon. James Wakelin Jr. (United States of America). 



9. Subject to the change indicated in paragraph 7 above, the Commission approved at the 

 beginning of its session the Draft Provisional Rules of Procedure submitted to it in document 

 IOC/1-2. It decided, however, to review these Rules at the end of its session and adopted a 

 revised set of Provisional Rules of Procedure which is reproduced in Annex III of this report. 



10. The Commission adopted the Agenda of the session after adding two major items: 



Item 9: Fritjof Nansen Memorial Session 



Item 10: Other business; Revision of Provisional Rules of Procedure; Election of the 

 Bureau; Date and place of the second session of the IOC. 



Also, several sub- items were added to Items 4 and 5: 



Item 4(b): Advisory Committee on Fisheries Aspects of Oceanography. 



4(e): Discussion of Provisional Rules of Procedure in connexion with the relations 



of IOC with other organizations. 

 5(f): Preliminary consideration of Unesco Programme in Marine Sciences in 

 1963-1964. 



Consideration of the programme of the Charles Darwin Station on the Galapagos Islands was in- 

 cluded under sub- item 5(a). (See approved Agenda - Annex IV). 



