Decision ID: 002857

In October 2002 the 1992 Fund Assembly decided that at the beginning of a session at which a request for observer status by an international non-governmental organisation should be considered, the Assembly should set up a group of five Member States to establish whether the applicant fulfilled the Fund’s criteria set out in the Fund’s guidelines for the granting of observer status and to report its findings before the end of its session so as to enable the Assembly to take a decision on the request. The Assembly also decided to amend the Fund’s guidelines to include the granting of provisional observer status. It was further decided that the Assembly should review every three years whether observer organisations continued to fulfil the criteria set out in the guidelines, and that a paragraph to this effect should be inserted in the guidelines. It was decided that the first review of the list of international non-governmental organisations having observer status should take place at the Assembly’s October 2003 session.