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The Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) is a subsidiary of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly for planning, programming and coordination.

• CPC website
• Economic and Social Council resolution 920 (XXXIV) of 3 August 1962 established the Special Committee on Co-ordination
• Renamed by Economic and Social Council resolution 1171 (XLI) of 5 August 1966
  • history of changes can be found on CPC's Legislative Basis webpage
• Terms of reference appear in Economic and Social Council resolution 2008 (LX) of 14 May 1976
• Subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly
• Reviews the programmes of the United Nations
• Assists the Economic and Social Council on coordination within the United Nations system
• Meets annually in closed sessions
  • Meeting records and press releases are not issued
• Document series symbol for working documents
  • E/AC.51/year/-
  • example: E/AC.51/2019/1
• sessional reports 
  • Supplement 16 to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR)
  • A/session/16
  • example: A/77/16
  • Link to search for all Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination

Available translations:

The Committee for Development Planning was established by E/RES/1079(XXXIX) of 28 July 1965.

It was renamed the Committee for Development Policy by E/RES/1998/46, Annex I, Part B, dated 31 July 1998 (p. 75 of E/1998/98).

Sessional reports

• Supplement 13 to the Economic and Social Council Official Records
• E/year/33
• Search results from the UN Digital Library for the reports of the Committee for Development Policy