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SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY 3 June 1949

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1 NOMENCLATURE REGULATIONS 1948 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 20 (Supplementary Agenda item 9>17)

(1) An examination of Article 20 of the Nomenclature Regulations 19481 has shown that certain difficulties will arise over the application of these regulations to those Members of the Organization which have become parties to the Constitution subsequent to 24 , the date of the adoption of the Regulations by the Health, Assembly, or which may become parties to the Constitution in the future.

(2) In effect, the Article as. at present worded provides that the Regulations shall apply to Members after the expiry of a period of twelve months from their adoption by the Health Assembly, except for such Members as may notify the Director-General within that period of rejection or of reservations. It is therefore impossible to provide a period of twelve months for any Member which has become a Party to the Constitution subsequent to the date of the adoption of the Regulations by the Health Assembly, and the same difficulties will arise in the case of future Members,

(3) It would appear that in order to conform strictly with Article 22 of the Constitution, it should be possible for the period of notice as provided for in that article to be given at any time after the adoption of the Regulations, and not for a fixed period dating from such adoption as is at present provided for in Article 20* of the Regulations.

(4) In order to obviate these difficulties it is suggested that an amendment be brought to Article 20 of the Regulations as set forth in the Annex to this report. It will be noted that this amendment has been drafted in the form of Additional Regulations of WHO, in order to

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conforto with'the provisions of Article 23 of the existing Regulations, These additional Regulations will become binding on such Members as shall not have notified the Director-General of rejection or ¡ reservations within the period stated in the notice, which is in this case sixty days. This period has been limited in order to ensure that the amendment coiras into force with as little delay as possible* As soon as the Supplementary Regulations have come into force, it will then be possible for the Director-General to transmit the notifications of the 1948'Regulations to the States concerned, in accordance with Article 22 of the Constitution and Article 20, as amended, of the Regulations, (5) .If the principle is accepted'that all Members of the Organization i shall be given the same period of notice during -which they may consider Regulations adopted by the Health Assembly, it is evident that Article 19 of the 1948 Regulations, which provides that the Regulations shall come into force on 1 , cannot be implemented by any State which has become a Member of the Organization subsequent to the date of the adoption of the Regulations by the First World Health'Assembly, since none, of these States have so far been notified of the adoption of the Régulâtiqns. This Article was inserted in order to provide continuity in the system-of the decénnial revision of the international list of diseases and -causes of death; its full application would have been obtained had the membership of the Organization been complete at the date of the First World Health Assembly. . An implied reservation however must presumably be assumed where for constitutional reasons its application is impossible, (6) . Should the World Health Assembly approve this procedure it is suggested that the Supplementary Regulations set forth in the Annex and -'.the Schedule thereto of this report be adopted. A2/44 page 3 ANNEX

NOMENCLATURE (SUPPLEMENTARY) REGULATIONS 1949

THE SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY, acting in accordance with Article 23 of the Nomenclature Regulations 1948

ADOPTS, this day of 1949 the following Supplementary Regulations on Nomenclature (including the compilation and publication of statistics) with respect to diseases and causes of death Which may be cited as the Nomenclature (Supplementary) Regulations 1949.

Article I

In Article 20 of the Nomenclature Regulations 1948 there shall be made the amendments specified in the Schedule to these Supplementary Regulations, being amendments which facilitate the giving of notice under Article 22 of the Constitution to such States as shall have become Members of the Organization subsequent to the date of the adoption of the Nomenclature Regulations 1948 by the World Health Assembly, and accordingly the said Article 20 of the Nomenclature Regulations 1948 shall have effect as amended by these Supplementary Regulations.

Article II

Without prejudice to Article 22 of the Constitution these Supplementary Regulations shall apply to each Member within sixty days of the notification of their adoption by the World Health Assembly.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have set our hands this day of I949.

The President of the The Director-General of the World Health Assembly World Health Organization A 2/44 page 4 ANNEX

SCHEDULE

AMENDMENT OF THE NOMENCLATURE REGULATIONS 1948

Amendment of Article 20

In line 3 after the words "the date of" there shall be inserted the words "the notification of the".