Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding ICH

　　Rule 8 - Observers

　　8.1 States Parties to the Convention which are not Members of the Committee may attend its sessions as observers.

　　8.2 States not party to the Convention which are Member States of UNESCO or of the United Nations may, upon written request, also be authorized by the Committee to attend the sessions of the Committee as observers.

　　8.3 The Committee may authorize the United Nations and organizations of the United Nations system, as well as, upon written request, other international governmental and non-governmental organizations, permanent observer missions to UNESCO and non-profit-making institutions active in the fields covered by the Convention, to attend its sessions as observers.

　　8.4 The Director-General shall invite any entity whose participation has been authorized by the Committee in conformity with Rules 8.2 and 8.3.

　　IV. Agenda

　　Rule 9 - Provisional agenda

　　9.1 The Director-General shall prepare the provisional agenda of the sessions of the Committee (Article 10.2 of the Convention).

　　9.2 The provisional agenda of an ordinary session of the Committee shall include:
(a) all questions that the Committee, at previous sessions, has decided to place thereon;
(b) all questions proposed by States Members of the Committee;
(c) all questions proposed by States Parties to the Convention which are not Members of the Committee;
(d) all questions proposed by the Director-General.

　　9.3 The provisional agenda of an extraordinary session shall include only those questions for the consideration of which the session has been convened.

　　Rule 10 - Adoption of the agenda

　　The Committee shall adopt at the beginning of each session its agenda for that session.

　　Rule 11 - Amendments, deletions and new items

　　The Committee may amend, delete or add items to the agenda so adopted if so decided by a two-thirds majority of the Members present and voting.