IOAC Sixteenth meeting of the Committee, 4 September 2018

Overview

A series of documents was circulated to members by the Secretariat prior to the meeting: a proposed revision to the IOAC terms of reference (TOR) based on discussion during the previous call of 18 June 2018, the IOAC monitoring framework, and the IOAC work plan for the period of September 2018–April 2019. As per the IOAC’s request from the last call, the Secretariat also produced a comparative table of various committees and advisory groups and shared it with members for reference.

Members reviewed the agenda items and defined expected outcomes of the call as: (1) approval of the revised TOR, (2) agreement on the IOAC monitoring framework for the initial 6 months, on the understanding that it is a living document, and (3) decision on the field visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) planned for 14–20 Octobe