9 on Livestock Disease Control

POSSIBLE AMEND11ENTS TU THE CONSTITUTION

Amendments to the Constitution which would be necessary to bring the Constitution into line �7i th the amendments to the FAO Constitution and Rules adopted at the Tenth Session of the 1<7.AO Conference in November 1957 were considered.

In the course of the discussion, it was pointed out that difficulty had been experienced by some counti0ies in obtainin(:; notifi-cation of the Constitution, The difficulty would again arise if certain of the suggested amendments were eventually acceptecl. The remaining amendments, in general are insubstantial and 9 ir only they were accepted, the desired uniformity with the Constitutions of other FAO Commissions would not be achieved. 9

Several delegations expressed themselves as being adverse to amending a Constitution that was working well unless overvn1elmingly good reasons were brought forward.

In view of these broad considerations each amendment was not discussed in \letiE1il m1cl it 1>'0.1:c: ovuntu::,11�,r Lmanii�•Jt1sl:r ngr0ucJ., -th.;:i:c no amondr11Gnts be made to the Commission's Constitution,

BUDGETS AN"D ACCOUNTS

The Commission adopted the accounts for 1959, the revised budget for1960 and the budget submitted for 1961, all as shovm in .Appendices I and. II of this Report,

FUTlJIG womc OF TILl COI'.J"-'.IISSION

A review of the future work of the Commission as stated in the Report of the Sixth Session was made by the Chairman. Each i tern was cleal t· with in tu:rm and it was showri. that, as far as possible j progress had been made. pointed out that the su6gestions for future worl:: contained in that not necessarily imply that all could be accomplished in a year. It was report did

The establishment of an emergency fund from which financial as13_istance could be provided to countries in the development of their control especially concerning slaughter of animals in outbl'oak:s 9 was discus pnograms 9 sed. It was felt that this subject might be discussed by the Executive Committee� in the meantime, however, every effort should be made to increase the membership of the Commission,

It was suggested aml the Session agiseed that 9 in addition to the future activities outlined in the report of the Executive Conunittee9 the Secretariat should make a general review of the foot-and-mouth clisease position in Europ\'3. This should also deal with the types of vaccino in use in different countries and any aspects of tho disease and its control thought to be important. It would be useful to discover ancl report which countries ·have a vaccine production potential which would allow them to provide vaccine to other-countries. in need of them. The ::!:'eview should include information on the extent to which countries are applying the Commission I s overall l)lan of control and the results. From this it may be posni ble to rna�rn suggestions on how the overall plan may be adopted in other parts of tho vorld or adapted to meat

regional conditions, The meeting was unanimous in• its views that a slaughterpolicy should l)e introduced at once in any counti,y in Europe ? vrhero such a policy is not in general operation in the control of foot-and-mouth disease, in the event of an exotic type of the virus beine identified as tho cause of an outbreak. It was pointed out that, in some countries a considerable amount of time may elapse after such an invasion beforo tho necssary authority to slaughtor was obtained from tho Government.

It was agreed that the following resolution bo adopted by the Commission in which among other recommendations Governments are requested to consider legislation to enable their veterinary services to introduce slaughter at once in the evsn:b an exotic ty1xJ of the virus being identified as the cause of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

RESOLUTION

'riill COMMISSION

Realising that a serious disease situation could arise from the introduction to a European country of a typo of the virus of foot-and-mouth disease not previously experienced in �urope; Re:ili.sing that tho danger is greatest in thoso countries where foot-andrnouth disease is enzootic and/ or where virus froi�1 only a small proportion of outbreaks may be typed;

Appreciating that vaccines are only available in sufficient quantity for field use against virus types 0 9 A and C; Noting that it has been recommended that vaccines against exotic viruses should not be prepared in countries in Continental Europe because of the danger of oscape of virus to the field;

Realising should be that the prepared inactivated vaccines against an emergency which, cannot it be has been reconunendod made available for 9 several months; and Realising that even if an appropriate vaccine were available, disease might spread before vaccination of the animals in tho vicinity of the outbreak could be accomplished; Resolved to invite the ]irector-Gonoral of FAO and tho Director of OIE to represent to the Europea · n Governments ( 1) tho importance of early recognition of tho appearance of disease caused by an exotic typo of virus and therefore the essential noed for large-scale and systematic typing of virus from outbreaks and (2) the great advantage of providing authority to the Veterinary Services to tako immediate stops to control the disease (a) by imposing control of movements of animals in an area surrounding the infected premisesy (b) by slaughter of the affe,cted animals and their contacts;

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ElJROPE&i COLiJiaSSIQj} FOR TFlli: COI:TRuL OF FCJOT-A1TD-110UTH DISEA:3b

BUDG}TS _!'OR 1960 Alill 19'1_ (Ho jcG by tho Director-General of Ji'AO)

1961 Administrative Budget

1. In accordance with the Constitution of tho Commission Jnd with its Fina.nci-al ReguJ.c.tion Budc;0t for 1961. III, I pros ,:mt l1or._,1.1i tlc the 1,roposod Aimus.J. Adi",,inistra.ti vo

2. The budg0t ostiQat0s have boon Qrmm up in tho form established in tho Financial Regulations.

3, but At this st,',c:,C I hav8 no ''sup1 I an, j_H•oscntine; th:J estirnat2s �lencntary bore in n cl.cta.ils" vritl1 rospvct to Chc--i.pt::n° single total ii1. accorda.1100 vvitl1 II Financial Hogulation 3.2. No oxpvndituros have so far b0cn mad v undvr this Chapto, and in t:10 a1Jscnc0 of any J_D,,Tionco to guide inc) I r.::coii:t11cnd th2,t an arbitrary sum of its was allm;Gd in tho ? 000 bv (Jl'OVidod llcr2 for Cl.pj;irovcd 1960 bud.:_,;ct. 1961 ) this iG tho S.:'-DC G.i!10Ui1t 2.S

4, It will bv noted thc1,t the proposccl Annual Administrativo Ludt:;.:.t fur l'.)61 totals :i)48 9 500, i. c. th1... maximum poto11tial contributions from Hciilbcr Gov ,.rnr..,onts that may be rccoiv�,d by tho Colilmiss iono I r"e,lisc i of courr�0, that the Coimr1ission 1 ay not actually r.___,e.:,i vc tho full amount of :;�4J 9 500 ( at the t ime of preparation of this budget it is poosi blo to count on oilly !i;27 9 SOU); in thc.t ovont OXj)On-· di tur.Js vrnuld be r0 stcr'icted in ord ..;r to lrnop total c�:pondi tur0s within th�' lirni ts of tho funds actually r-Jcoiv,.;cl.

5. Undor Articlo l· 11Porso;1al Services" of Chapt_;r I the buclg-:.t ostimat,�s alloy, for one J?-4 Sccroto.ry to the Conm,irrnion, o ne G--4 Stenographer; and the services of c, Consulta11t. Tb0:co is no ch3,11G'C: in the Articles 11 Travol11 , "Evctincs", "l'hsccllanoous" OT "Contractual S"rvic_.:,; 11 0,s at,'ainst tho r,.viscd 1960 buclg-ct. J961 Spacial Buds'.l.._�� 6. In tho Special Budg.:,t for tho S ;:i ccial Account 9 1961, I rccom;:·,ond t:1<.1t as in 1959� an ari1ou�1t of �;31 000 be ,rovi,.�cC_ to cov ;,.' any ;1.,;ccso "' r:? trav, .. 1 an.cl i_)Cr cl.icu of rnomb-::rs of U,o ;3to..ncline; Tcctr:.ical C01iin:itt",:,.

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8. I atte,ch :it 'l1 J,lJL; A cor1,or0,tin[;' th.:, tr,�.�i.:;f\.,r the r_.vis,,cJ. A:.-11rn,1.l AJ.i.:.inistrativc I l:\a,_r�·; ::,ff ,ct· -d, to:::,·., "hor \ii th n:y Dwli._,--t for 1960 ;wwiocod '..iwlc>t ? in-c,st i ;na t ,JS for 1961 , 2, t 'rc.i,lJl c 3 a �)Llftl1�,,:,ry sl1□•:. -in[; by A:ct .icl c tl1,� ,_1:rovi si onc.l o::;.:pcmdi tuio . in 1959 ? tLc.. a t-Table C a note giving 196u r . .,vi c:.:.d budg,,t 2.:,1cl t;lO 1961 j)I'OpO:JGd buclc;ot, o.nd th0 Sp�cial Budc-t for tho S9vcio.l Account for 1961. B - 1345