The Expert Group agreed to conduct its work in plenary and to establish such contact groups as necessary, which would be open to observers as well as to members of the Expert Group.

The Expert Group further agreed to establish an intersessional working group on the issue and to convene, subject to the availability of funding, a meeting on the subject.

The Expert Group welcomed the invitation made by the expert from China to hold the second meeting of the Expert Group in Beijing.

Recommendations of the Expert Group

The Working Group is guided by an advisory expert group.

OIC Group (at the expert level)

Eastern European Group (at the expert level)

The open ended expert group held five meetings.

Expert group meetings and expert briefs are supporting the preparation of particular aspects of the study.

The Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention, the Expert Group on Technology Transfer, and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group.

The Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classification discussed the proposal to establish a mechanism for assessing the implementation of international standard classifications through a formal set of questions and criteria.

(e) Noted with concern that a technical expert group was no longer being convened to assist in the revision process of the International Standard Classification of Occupations and, while noting the alternative mechanism employed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) through the use of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications, still urged the International Labour Organization to establish such a group.

It has under it a monitoring and statistics group, and an expert assessment group.

Accordingly, the Expert Group considered a number of issues.

Progress report of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group

The Conference shall establish a Negotiating Group.

The Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (CGE), the Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT), and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG).

To this end, each Commission should establish clear terms of reference for its expert meetings.

C. Conclusions of the Expert Group on Distributive Trade Statistics

4 9 December 2006 Second meeting of the Expert Group

OIC Group (on Sixth Committee matters) (at the expert level)

OIC Group (on Sixth Committee matters) (at the expert level)

The Expert Group agreed to the key areas outlined in the discussion document as a starting point and asked that a small group of Expert Group members prepare a refined version within the next year.

This is to establish an FMCT experts group.

The Expert Group agreed on a schedule to undertake intersessional work in preparation for the Expert Group's second meeting.

Now that we have an action plan, we ought to move forward and establish a focal point and an expert level working group to ensure the integration of resolution 1325 (2000) into the Council's work.

Recommendations by the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications

Extension of the mandate of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group

Extension of the mandate of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group

Welcoming the technical papers of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group,

Table 1. Coordinators of the intersessional work of the Expert Group

The Expert Group requested the Secretariat to edit the revised guidelines and further elaborate the individual booklet model to be submitted to the Expert Group for consideration at its next meeting.

Does the Commission agree that the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications should remain involved in this process, especially after the planned review at the Expert Group meeting in 2007?

The meeting of the ad hoc expert working group on energy statistics

Canada's delegate to P8 Senior Expert Working Group on Transnational Organized Crime

The Expert Group further agreed to establish working groups to undertake the intersessional work with a view to enhancing or strengthening the different chapters of the draft guidelines and also identified leads within its membership to coordinate such work.

The actual status of the group as a subgroup of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications was subsequently questioned by the ILO, but it still intends to report back to the Expert Group on work carried out until 2007.

The full report of the Expert Group is available as a background document.

The Technical Expert Group met in Geneva from 8 to 11 November 2005.

The Expert Group expressed strong support for the establishment of such a mechanism.

Furthermore, gender equality is on the agenda in the revitalised PRSP Expert Group.

Possible elements of a new mandate for the Least Developed Countries Expert Group

Chaired by Ambassador Ibra Déguène Ka (Senegal), the Group consisted of Kathi Lynn Austin (United States of America), arms trafficking expert, Enrico Carisch (Switzerland), finance expert, Abdoulaye Cissoko (Mali), civil aviation expert and Jean Luc Gallet (France), customs expert.

The Monitoring Group was based in Nairobi and comprised the following experts Bruno Schiemsky (Belgium), arms expert and coordinator Melvin Holt, Jr. (United States of America), arms expert Harjit Kelley (Kenya), maritime expert and Joel Salek (Colombia), finance expert.

The Expert Group agreed to set up a contact group to discuss the matter further, which reported back on its work.