By Decision 4, the Executive Council of IOC at its 47th session (Paris, 1-4 July 2014) decided to reconvene the open-ended intersessional working group on the Future of the IOC under the Chairmanship of Vice-Chair Peter Haugan with a view to providing proposals for each of the following issues to the IOC Assembly at its 28th Session in 2015:

• (i) formulate a common message from IOC to UNESCO and other UN organizations about the societal benefits of the IOC mission, programs and activities, and develop a strategy for dissemination, including preparation of information material on IOC for use in Member States,
• (ii) develop recommendations for strengthening IOC mission implementation by linking the issues already identified during the process with the Medium-Term Strategy, revised with criteria of prioritization,
• (iii) consider new or expanded roles for sub-commissions and other regional subsidiary bodies of IOC in achieving the strengthening under (ii),
• (iv) consider the information provided under 8 (iii) above and develop recommendations, as appropriate, in the context of its function as a joint specialized mechanism in the UN system.

Full text of the decision in the summary report of EC-47 <font=blue>here. There are 30 participants from 17 IOC Member States: Angola, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Japan, Iran (I.R.), Monaco, Portugal, Tanzania, U.K., U.S.A. under the chairmanship of Peter Haugan (Norway).