2 Definitions
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2 Definitions

For the purpose of these guidelines, the following definitions apply:

  • .1 Strategic Plan is the Strategic Plan for the Organization for a six-year period as adopted by the Assembly, which includes key strategic directions to enable IMO to achieve its mission objectives.

  • .2 High-level Action Plan is the High-level Action Plan of the Organization and the biennium's priorities, as adopted by the Assembly, which enables the Organization to effectively address strategic directives, identifies high-level actions necessary to achieve the IMO objectives and priorities over a biennium and provides the linkage between the Organization's strategy, the work of the various IMO organs and the biennial budget.

  • .3 Planned output is a product planned in the High-level Action Plan to be delivered by the Organization during a biennium.

  • .4 Unplanned output is a product that may be agreed by the Committees to be delivered during a biennium after the adoption of that biennium's High-level Action Plan.

  • .5 Provisional agenda is a list of outputs for discussion at a particular meeting.

  • .6 Biennial agenda is a list of planned outputs to be delivered during a biennium by a Committee or subsidiary body.

  • .7 Post-biennial agenda is a list of accepted outputsfootnote to be delivered or initiated beyond a current biennium.


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