Draft of additional protocol to the Pan American Sanitary Code

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5th DIRECTING COUNCIL

3rd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

THE 5th DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Considering that the Directing Council, in pursuance of Resolution XXVI of this V Meeting,

appointed the Representatives of Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba to draw up the draft of the protocol

referred to in the aforesaid resolution; and

Considering that at its closing plenary session the Council approved the draft protocol submitted by

the aforementioned representatives,

RESOLVES

1. To recommend that the countries of the Americas, signatories of the Pan American Sanitary Code

(Havana, 1924), adopt the following Additional Protocol thereto:

a) Articles 2, 9, 10, 11, 16 to 53 inclusive, 61, and 62 of the Pan American Sanitary Code (Havana,

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b) Henceforth, any periodic amendment that it should be appropriate to make in the titles, sections,

or articles of the Pan American Sanitary Code shall be the responsibility of the Pan American

Sanitary Conference, to which reference is made in the Constitution of the Pan American Sanitary

Organization; for any such appropriate amendment to be valid the provisions of Article 24 of the

Constitution of the Pan American Sanitary Organization (Buenos Aires, 1947) shall be carried out.

2. To instruct the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau that, in submitting the draft

Additional Protocol referred to in paragraph 1 to the Governments signatories of the Havana

Convention, he attach thereto the documents embodying the considerations warranting the

aforementioned Protocol, including all the documents on this topic that have been submitted to the

14th Meeting of the Executive Committee and to the V Meeting of the Directing Council.