160 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY 



ANNEX IV 



INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION 



First Session 



Paris, Unesco, 19-27 October 1961 



AGENDA 



1 . Introduction 



(a) Opening of the session and introductory remarks 



(b) Formal invitation of intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations' representa- 

 tives to take part in the meeting as observers 



2. Organization of Commission 



(a) Election of Chairman 



(b) Adoption of provisional Rules of Procedure 



(c) Election of other officers 



(d) Adoption of Agenda 



3 . Report of the Secretariat 



4. Relationship between the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and other 

 organizations 



(a) Special Committee on Oceanic Research 



(b) Advisory Committee on Fisheries Aspects of Oceanography 



(c) United Nations Specialized Agencies 



(d) Other intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations 



(e) Discussion of provisional Rules of Procedure in connexion with relations of IOC with 

 other organizations 



5. International Oceanographic Programme 



(a) Comments on previous recommendations (including the Programme of Charles Darwin 

 Station on Galapagos Islands) 



(b) New proposals 



(c) Joint programme 



(d) Aids to navigation 



(e) Recording stations 



(f) Preliminary consideration of Unesco programme in marine sciences for 1963-1964 



6. Data centres - exchange of data and publications connected with the Intergovernmental 

 Oceanographic Commission activities 



7. Standardization and intercalibration of methods and instruments 



8. International research and training vessel 



9. Fritjof Nansen Memorial Session 



10. Other business. Revision of provisional Rules of Procedure, election of the Bureau, date 

 and place of the second session of the IOC 



