PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
4th DIRECTING COUNCIL
2nd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 25 - 30 September 1950
RESOLUTION
CD4.R8
REVISION OF THE PROGRAMS AND COMMITMENTS OF THE
PAN AMERICAN SANITARY BUREAU
THE 4th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Considering that the programs and recommendations adopted at the Conferences and meetings for
which no appropriate funds are voted become automatically ineffective;
Considering that the Pan American Sanitary Bureau at present functions on the basis of a budget,
which has not been the case in previous years; and
Considering that the recommendations accumulated from previous Conferences and meetings only
[serve as expressions of] the interest of Member States in the development of certain activities,
rather than as injunctions to the Bureau, as long as no corresponding funds are assigned,
RESOLVES
To recommend to the XIII Pan American Sanitary Conference that it relieve the Pan American
Sanitary Bureau of those responsibilities imposed by previous Conferences and meetings that were