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Financial Report, Budget and membership contributions for the biennium 2014-15; Technical Committees and their membership for the upcoming biennium Constitutional or legal issues; Election of the Executive Any other issues
The Chairman also concluded that the official language for the meeting would be English and that interpretation in French would not be required, and the official notifications and reporting of the Session be made only in English. The number of participants requiring French interpretation is now very limited and the cost per Session for the Commission is unaffordable. Standing Technical Committee and Special Committee – role and procedure A review of the Terms of Reference for the STC, following the proposals from Dr Gibbens, were reported in the STC Report (Item 4). Since their recommendations were accepted, the ToR for the STC will be proposed as follows to the 40th Session; To: 1. Advise the ExCom and Commission on appropriate measures of success and methodology for evaluation of programmes or projects to be taken forward 2. Maintain an overview of FMD science and technology and global FMD issues to advise on appropriate policies or programmes that the Commission should consider 3. Provide the ExCom and Com with advice on the scientific and technical aspects of any proposals for policies or programmes suggested by Members or others The STC proposed that it would be better if the new Special Committee “on Research and Development of FMD Programmes” would be made responsible for: • scientific and technical assessment of regular reports or specific evaluations of programmes or projects [funded or supported by the Commission] • scientific and technical assessment of proposals for research put forward for funding [or support] by the Commission. The STC report also recommended that they should be funded to meet annually with the EuFMD Secretariat to review Programme progress and plans. Relating to the Special Committee, the Secretary presented a proposal (Appendix 10) for a revision in the role of Special Committee from being “for research “ to “for Research and Development of the FMD programme”. The rationale for this being that the work programme of the EuFMD for the next 4 years will have three different strategic goals with considerable technical and context differences between the needs of the member states, the neighbourhood countries and for the actions supporting global surveillance and the PCP tools associated with Pillars 1 to 3. Thus there will be a need for international expertise to guide the Secretariat in developing the programme - and to guide the STC and Executive in reviewing the progress and Reports coming from the actions under the 3 pillars. The paper suggested that the Special Committee members should be associated with specific Pillar activities and thus the EuFMD manager responsible for each pillar would ensure that the Special Committee members are informed of the programme, receive reports, and the Secretariat would manage the flow of reports and feedback. This model should ensure that the Special Committee 85th Executive Committee meeting of the EuFMD, Crete, Chania, 14-15 February 2013
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