A smaller number of delegations expressed the strongly held view that the draft instrument should not allow parties to a contract of carriage to agree to exclusive jurisdiction clauses.

Agenda Items

The Committee has dealt with three key items on its agenda, as detailed below.

Proposals of agenda items

E. Balance sheet items

Other items of interest

Items for information poverty statistics

Items for information service statistics

As in any such list of proposals, there are items which seem more important to some than to others, and items about which some have reservations, while others consider them essential.

Items for information statistical capacity building

Since 2001, billions of dollars were shifted from disaster relief to homeland security and the war in Iraq. Key disaster mitigation programs were slashed and federal funding for post disaster relief was cut in half.

Items for information informal sector statistics

Items for discussion and decision development indicators

Items for information international merchandise trade statistics

Items which the Committee has decided to consider together.

A suggestion was also made that the bracketed text a jurisdiction or should be deleted in its entirety from draft article 81 bis, since jurisdiction clauses were not common in the non liner industry, and the intention of the proposal was to preserve the status quo.

Transport

Transportation

Subprogramme 2 Transport

At present, robots are mere items of property.

Items for discussion and decision social statistics

Items for discussion and decision distributive trade statistics

Items for discussion and decision environmental accounting

Items which the Committee has decided to consider together.

Agenda items 85 to 105 (continued)

Draft article 33 Issuance of the transport document or electronic transport record

Communications Unit

E. Transportation

1 ASG, 1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 GS OL, 2 NS

Resource requirements

E. Transport

Transport documents

C. Training

Summary of follow up action taken to implement requests and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Office of Internal Oversight Services

Formed Police Unit

Transport

Air

Engineering

(j) Transport

Transport

Ground transport

Items for discussion and decision international economic and social classifications

Items for discussion and decision programme review industrial statistics

Agenda items 45, 53 and 55

Items for discussion and decision International Comparison Programme