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the functions entrusted to them; (b) the Council and the Assembly continue to review the provisional agendas for their subsidiary bodies, together with the list of requested documentation, in order, inter alia, to establish greater consistency in the overall request for documentation and its orderly consideration at the intergovernmental level, taking fully into account the mediumterm plan and the programme budget; and (c) in doing so, the Council and the Assembly also take into account the need for the consolidation of items and documentation for their subsidiary machinery.

and Research through (a) consolidation of the reports of the Secretary-General and the Executive Director of the Institute; (b) submission of the new consolidated report of the Secretary-General to the Council rather than to the Assembly; and (c) establishment of a biennial reporting cycle starting from 2009 (General Assembly resolution 62/210).

consolidating reports; for example, committee reports could serve as background or information documents, with only the key recommendations from each committee session compiled into its own document for consideration by the Commission; (c) producing reports that are concise, direct and easy to understand, and directly related to the outcome of the meeting, containing the necessary references and links to background documents and reflecting consensus and recommendations; and (d) moving towards a paperless Commission session by ensuring that all documents are available online and that no more than two sets of documents are printed and sent to each member State, including one in the official language of its preference, and notifying member States via e-mail of the availability of the documents online.b 4.

on the use of all sources of income, core and non-core, for each costs category and functional cluster; (d) improved information on actual expenditures against projections; and (f) greater harmonization of the budgets, while respecting the specific business models of the agencies.

had confined its comments and recommendations to those issues that it regarded as outstanding, i.e. procedures for granting and terminating continuing appointments; the eligibility of staff recruited through the national competitive examination for consideration for continuing appointments; the establishment of a ceiling on the number of conversions to continuing appointments; and termination payments.

to support result-based management.

to or revisions of adopted standards and related texts.

to substantially improve the situation and to lay the foundations for a possible policy approach based on progressive outsourcing of the greater part of the production.

report on amendments to the Staff Regulations (A/63/189) and the report on recruitment and staffing in the United Nations (A/63/285), which focused on the roster-based approach to staffing.

policy with the initiation and ongoing development of the Science, Technology and Innovation Global Assessment Programme (STIGAP).

in open briefings or debates to provide updates from the field.

of discussions and allow the cost-effective participation of delegations in the work of the Subcommittee and that the efficiency of that work and working discipline should be enhanced.

trends and issues in a changing world, while ensuring coherence and complementarity with the actions of other United Nations organizations.

in order to prevent terrorists who have supposedly reformed or died in the meantime from taking up arms again, thus jeopardizing or undoing years of hard work and sacrifice.

we previously faced similar problems in the intersessional periods between 2003, 2004 and 2005.

may wish to recommend to the General Assembly that it review the recommendations contained in paragraph 22 of the annex to resolution 51/241 and paragraph 23 of document A/52/855, regarding the length of statements.