FICSA COUNCIL

56^th SESSION
WHO/EURO Copenhagen
10 to 14 February 2003
Hosted by WHO Regional Office for Europe

FEDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS’ ASSOCIATIONS
FEDERATION DES ASSOCIATIONS DE FONCTIONNAIRES INTERNATIONAUX

FICSA/C/56/R.1 Geneva, 26 May 2003

Credentials

Election of the Chair, Vice-Chairs and Rapporteur

Adoption of the agenda

Organization of the Council’s work

Constitutional matters

Questions relating to membership of, and consultative and observer status, in FICSA

Report of the Executive Committee for 2002-2003

The situation of the FICSA President

Clarification of elections to the Executive Committee

Election of the Chair of the ad hoc Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions

Elections

Legal questions

Human resources management

Social security/occupational health and safety

Conditions of service in the field

General Service questions

Professional salaries and allowances

Joint session of the Standing Committees on human resources management and Professional salaries and allowances

Administrative and budgetary questions

Functioning of FICSA

The situation of the FICSA President – Decisions taken

Associate matters

Other business

Date, place and draft agenda of the next session

Election of the Executive Committee for 2003-2004

Elections of the Standing Committee officers for 2003-2004

Closing of the session

Annex

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Agenda of the 56^th FICSA Council

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Appendix 2: Report the Permanent Technical Committee for non-headquarters duty stations (PTC/Non-HQ)

Appendix 3: Report of the joint meeting of the PTCs for headquarters and non-headquarters duty stations

Appendix 4: Report of the meeting of the FICSA PTC/HQ to review the General Service salary survey methodology for headquarter duty stations (Barcelona, 4-7 December 2002)

Appendix 5: List of participants (Barcelona, 4-7 Dec. 2002)

Appendix 6: Position paper of the FICSA Working Group on the review of the application of the headquarters salary survey methodology

Appendix 7: Report of the meeting of the FICSA PTC/Non-HQ to review the General Service salary survey methodology for non-headquarters duty stations (Barcelona, 4-7 Dec. 2002)

Appendix 8: List of participants (Barcelona, 4-7 Dec. 2002)

Appendix 9: Summary of deliberations of the joint session of the FICSA PTCs for headquarters and non-headquarters duty stations

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Report of the joint session of the Standing Committees on Human Resources Management and Professional Salaries and Allowances - Review of the pay and benefits system

Appendix: Reform of the pay and benefits system – What is at stake for United Nations system staff? (Powerpoint presentation)

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Budget for the year 2003

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Distribution of staff for the purposes of the 2003 contributions

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Methodology for calculating the scale of contributions for 2003

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Scale of contributions for 2003

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List of documents and conference room papers