CM/Res. 528 (XXVIII)
RESOLUTION ON THE ORDINARY SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of Africa Unity, meeting in its Twenty - Eight Ordinary Session in Lome, Togo, from 21 to 28 February 1977.
Having considered the Report of the Advisory Committee on Budgetary and Financial Matters as well as the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on OAU Structural Reform;
Considering that the Charter provides for two Ordinary Sessions of the Council of Ministers in a year,
Convinced that the February Session should be devoted to the consideration of administrative, financial and institutional matters and adoption of the Budget of the Organization of the Budget of the Organization of African Unity for the next financial year,
DECIDES without prejudice to the provisions of Article 15:
that rule 6 of the Rules of Procedure of the Council of Ministers should be amended by deleting the words “inter alia” at paragraph 2 of Rule 6;
that henceforth, all the Member States represented in Addis Ababa as well as Ethiopia, shall be members of the Advisory Committee on budgetary and Financial Matters except the countries providing the OAU External Auditors;
that the members of the Advisory Committee on budgetary and Financial Matters be henceforth assisted by Experts from Member States, particularly, during the December Session. The Advisory Committee shall examine in detail the budgetary and financial proposals and shall submit its recommendations to the February Ordinary Session of the Council.