Governance

Meetings of Presidents of the Technical Commissions

Terms of Reference (Resolution 4 (EC-LX))

(a) To provide scientific and technical advice to Congress, the Executive Council and
other WMO constituent bodies as necessary;

(b) To exchange information on activities of the individual commissions;

(c) To coordinate, as necessary, plans for the implementation of ongoing scientific and
technical activities of the commissions, in order to eliminate unnecessary overlap of
actions and to arrange for mutual assistance;

(d) To coordinate the input from the technical commissions into the WMO cross-cutting
programmes, for example the Disaster Risk Reduction Programme;

(e) To recommend to the Executive Council the establishment of inter-commission task
teams for discussing issues of common concern, as required;

(f) To assess, evaluate and implement a regular review process on the usefulness and
benefits to the Organization of results of conferences, seminars and training meetings,
excluding those solely devoted to training, held under the scientific programmes of the
Organization, and of the scientific and technical publications of the Organization;

(g) To review and discuss the current WMO Strategic and Operation Plans in the light
of recent or upcoming scientific and technical advances and contribute to the
development of the next planning cycle;

(h) To perform any other functions that might be referred to these meetings by Congress,
the Executive Council and other WMO constituent bodies;

These meetings should be chaired annually in rotation by the Vice-Presidents of WMO;

These meetings should not be longer than three to five days, and should be held, on
an annual basis, in conjunction with the meetings of the WMO Bureau when feasible.

Top