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ITU-2000 Recommendations to
PP-98
R. 1
It is recommended that, within the ITU, which is an
intergovernmental organization, mechanisms should be identified with
the objective of promoting fruitful cooperation and partnership as
appropriate between Sector Members and Member States, each of them
having well-defined rights and obligations in conformity with the
modified basic instruments of the Union.
R. 2
It is recommended that, in order to maintain its pre-eminent
position in the telecommunication world and to meet the interests
and expectations of existing members and encourage new members, the
appropriate bodies within the ITU should implement the ITU-2000
recommendations as soon as possible, including the following:
- adoption of a project management
approach where appropriate;
- assurance that all members are aware of
their rights in relation to Sector activities and
opportunities to participate in the work at all stages;
- the need for all members of the Sector
to contribute to the priority setting process for the study
activities within a Sector or Study Group;
- production of Recommendations including
those related to world standards and other products on time
to meet the needs of the marketplace;
- simplification of the methods used to
change and implement new working methods of the ITU taking
into account inputs from Member States and Sector Members.
R. 3
It is recommended that Members and members be named respectively
as Member States and Sector Members.
R. 4
ITU-2000 recommends that there should be only one category of
Sector Member which should be open to the widest range of entities
commensurate with the aims of the ITU. The following entities are
eligible to become Sector Members:
- Entities dealing with
telecommunications, including multi-media, for example:
Operating Agencies, Scientific or Industrial Organizations,
Financial and Development Organizations.
- Regional or other international
telecommunication, standardization, financial or development
organizations.
In principle, and where appropriate, all
Sector Members of a given Sector should have equal rights and
obligations.
R. 5
ITU-2000 recognizes the sovereign right of each Member State,
when applying the procedure for admission of Sector Members, to
determine its own procedure and under what conditions the entities
under its jurisdiction may apply to become a Sector Member. In this
respect, a Member State may authorize entities under its
jurisdiction to apply for one or more Sector(s) directly to the
Secretary-General and in such case the following should apply:
When the Secretary-General receives an
application from an entity under the jurisdiction of a Member State
who authorized direct application to the Secretary-General, the
latter shall, on the basis of criteria defined by the Council,
ensure that the function and purposes of the candidate are in
conformity with the purposes of the Union. He shall then without
delay, inform the applicant’s Member State inviting approval of
the application.
- If no objection is received from the
Member State, the applicant will be informed that the
application has been approved
- If an objection is received, the
applicant will be invited to contact his Member State.
- When a Member State has previously
indicated to the Secretary-General that a no reply from his
side on individual application should be considered as an
acceptance, the applicant is considered as being approved
for at the expiration of a period of two months following
the request by the Secretary-General.
The Secretary-General should
regularly update and publish a list of those Member States having
authorized entities under their jurisdiction to apply directly to
him.
R. 6
It is recommended that to increase participation by smaller
entities in the work of a Sector a form of membership termed
"Associate" should be established. Should an Assembly or
Conference decide to admit an Associate in a Sector concerned, the
following principles should apply :
- the process for becoming an Associate
should be the same as that applicable to a Sector Member of
that Sector;
- the rights of an Associate would
include the right to participate in the work of one study
group in a Sector, but excludes rights applicable to Sector
Members including participation in the decision-making
processes of the study group and study group liaison
activities;
- the level of financial contribution
applicable to Associates should be such that it at least
covers the full allocated cost of their participation,
R. 7
Appropriate activities of the Sectors may benefit from enhanced
cooperation with other groups having related interests. To this
effect, it is recommended that:
R. 7/1
cooperation with organizations having activities related to
those of the Union be reinforced by inviting, following a
procedure to be developed by the Sector concerned and applied by
the Director of its Bureau, such organizations to send liaison
representatives to take part in the Sectors’ meetings. A
Liaison Representative would be the representative of an
organization which does not participate in the Sector but which
had been invited to take part in the work of a specific Study
Group or subordinate Groups.
R. 7/2
It is recommended that further steps be taken to encourage
cooperation with regional and other organizations, and
similarly, that Member States encourage cooperation of national
organizations, by inviting their participation at the Sector
level. Possibilities for work sharing should be explored. Where
mutual interest exists, relevant ITU information should be made
available on a collaborative basis allowing, among other things,
controlled access to text in electronic form via the ITU
databases.
R.8
It is recommended that the title of the WTSC should be changed
to the WTS Assembly. This would align with ITU-R and would clarify
the situation such that within ITU-T and ITU-R only treaty-making
"meetings" would be referred to as Conferences.
R. 9
The budgetary system of the ITU should be improved in order to
strengthen the financial base of the Union and to adequately meet
the requirements of its membership. To this effect, it is
recommended that:
R.9/1
that the free choice of financial contributions should
be retained. ITU-2000 supports the periodical distribution
of information on the relative level of contributions by
Member State and Sector Members as well as continued action
by the Secretary-General in this regard, which would be
useful to them in choosing their class of contribution.
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Improvements
in the application of the free choice system are
required to ensure that all contributors share in a
more equitable manner the burden of financing ITU
activities, commensurate with the benefits they
derive from the Union. In this respect, some
participants are of the view that the resources made
available to the Union by Member States and Sector
Members should also be taken into account.
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In the
ongoing analysis of the Financial foundations of the
Union, Council needs to consider a variety of
factors, including the matter of guidelines in
relation to the level of contributions. Member
States and the Advisory bodies of the Sectors may,
if they so wish, consider the matter of guidelines
and make contributions to the Council.
R. 9/4
the financial contributions from Sector Members should
be identified for the Sector for which they were made,
taking into account that a share of those contributions will
be used in support of General Secretariat costs which are
both directly and indirectly attributable.
Under such a system and bearing in mind the
biennial budgeting process, if there is an increase in the
contributions of Sector Members, these will be identified for the
Sector for which they were intended (recognizing that this could
also be achieved through the mechanism of voluntary contributions).
If, however, there is a decrease in the amount of money available in
support of the activities of a particular Sector, it could be
necessary to undertake reductions in the Sector budget based on a
reassessment of priorities in the work programme, as recommended by
the Director in consultation with the Sector Advisory bodies.
R.10
It is recommended that, in relation to the amount of the
contributory unit by Member States and Sector Members, the current
ratio should be examined by the Plenipotentiary Conference, in the
light of the future financial structure of the Union.
R.11
It is recommended that the Council implement as soon as possible
a mechanism by which the views of Sector Members on the finances of
the Union would be taken into account (for example: by admitting to
the meetings of the Finance Committee of the Council,
representatives of Sector Member(s) nominated by the relevant
Advisory bodies.
R. 12
It is recommended that the pricing policy for the publications
should aim at the largest distribution of ITU documents, according
to Kyoto Resolution 66. It is further recommended that the overall
revenues from selling publications should cover the cost of
production, marketing and sales beyond development of the final text
and that the revenues after the deduction of those costs should be
credited to the Sector having elaborated the publications.
However, in order to ensure the widest
possible distribution of publications, especially in developing
countries, a policy should be adopted to make the price of
publications as affordable as possible.
R. 13
It is recommended that, in relation to the rights of Member
States who are in arrears:
- not to elect Member States in arrears
to the Council, nor to any management bodies for Conferences
- abolish the concept of special arrears
accounts
R. 14
ITU-2000 recommends that in relation to the dissemination of
information covering the rights and obligations of Sector members
the following actions should undertaken:
R.14/1
The CS/CV should be amended or revised, where
appropriate, to enable any of the agreed ITU-2000
recommendation to be implemented. In particular, the rights
of Sector Members to participate in the work of the
Radiocommunication Assembly, the WTSC or the WTDC and their
subsidiary meetings should be recognized. In addition, the
role of sector advisory bodies to develop detailed
provisions relating to the specific activities of the
respective sectors should also be recognized.
In addition, Kyoto Resolution 14 should be
updated to identify the rights and obligations of all members of
sectors of the Union and submitted to the 1998 Plenipotentiary
Conference for adoption.
R.15
It is recommended that for the purpose of widening the
representation of Radiocommunication Sector participants at WRCs,
the Radiocommunication Assembly (1997) consider the matter and
prepare the contribution to the Council.
R. 17
ITU-2000 recommends that, considering the need for approval of
some Recommendations in a more flexible way than others, each Sector
may extend its own working methods and procedures for the adoption
of Questions and Recommendations to meet such needs using an
alternative approval process. These working methods and procedures,
where applicable, should be based on the following general
principles:
- Questions be adopted at a Study Group
meeting on an equal footing by Member States and Sector
Members participating in the meeting (for example, as
presently done in the Standardization Sector).
- The Study Group meeting should indicate
at the time of approval of the Question whether the
resulting Recommendation is to be approved by the
alternative process.
- The Questions, together with the
designation of which approval process to be used should be
notified to all Member States and Sector Members. Any
resulting comments should be treated in accordance with the
procedures adopted by the Sector.
- When the alternative process is used,
Recommendations should be approved by the Member States and
Sector Members in a Study Group meeting on an equal footing,
in accordance with the procedures adopted by the Sector.
- Recommendations approved using the
alternative process shall have the same status as
Recommendations approved otherwise.
- Each Sector shall develop guidelines to
be followed by Study Groups when identifying the process to
be applied for approval of each Recommendation.
- The alternative process should not to
be used for Recommendations having policy or regulatory
implications.
R. 20
It is recommended that Council implement the use, as extensively
as possible, cost recovery for products and services and to consider
additional opportunities for cost recovery that might prove
promising.
Groups of products and services which could
be subject to improvements in efficiency and cost recovery and
revenue generation mechanisms should be developed. Elected
officials, Sector Advisory bodies and participants are urged to
recommend activities which could be included in each of three
categories.
R. 22
It is recommended that the announcement of the class of contribution
for Member States should take place during the Plenipotentiary
Conference.
Council will determine when
exactly the announcement will be made. The meeting agreed that the
General Secretariat should recommend what legal means need to be
taken to ensure that this new approach is applicable for the
Plenipotentiary Conference in 1998.
R. 23
It is recommended that any reduction in a Member State’s
choice of class of contribution should not be more than 2 classes
and should be implemented gradually over the period between
Plenipotentiary Conferences.
R. 24
It is recommended that, in order to provide recognition of the
status and functions of the Radiocommunication Advisory Group and
the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group in the current
basic instruments of the Union, appropriate provisions should be
developed and reflected in the Convention.
It is also recommended to modify the
provisions related to TDAB in view to open the participation to
Member States and Sector Members. The Director of the BDT should
take action to encourage participation of Sector Members from
developing and developed countries.
R. 26
It is recommended that consideration is given by future WRCs to
the need to allow sufficient time for proper and thorough conference
preparations to be made, when recommending the agenda and the date
for the succeeding WRC, noting that the Convention allows
flexibility in this regard.n |
