At this stage, the linkage between e Meets and APG has been completed in New York.

At UNON, e Meets has been in operation since 2003.

Linking e Meets with APG can be foreseen for these duty stations.

Additional steps to manage the calendar globally can be anticipated as e Meets becomes the global tool for meetings planning and as the link between e Meets and APG, a software for interpreter assignment, also becomes global.

At UNOV, e Meets is used for Vienna based bodies meeting at headquarters.

The Department for General Assembly and Conference Management has facilitated, through the meetings management system (e Meets), web based requests by permanent missions for Secretariat conference services.

The recent success of UNOG in establishing a working linkage of e Meets and e DRITS is also a step in that direction.

Meeting planners at all duty stations will then have access to information on overall workload and capacity using e Meets APG as the central database.

At UNOG, the first phase of e Meets was implemented in February 2005 for meetings planning and the second phase for the electronic processing of requests was completed in June.

Then, sessional dates were proposed by the Department, through e Meets, to the technical secretariats of the calendar bodies, with the aim of producing a relatively even workload for most of the year.

There is a need to integrate the Organization's programme and financial performance reports and to provide linkages between the different databases, e.g., IMIS, BIS, E drits E meets, to avoid redundant data entry and to facilitate automatic flow of programming and financial information, including cost accounting.

In recent years, greater predictability has been achieved, thanks to strict enforcement of the new rules on the provision of services, the consistent efforts of the Department, as reported in the report of the Secretary General on the pattern of conferences (A 60 93), the proposals made in the context of the revitalization of the General Assembly and the use of e Meets.

The 2006 2007 draft calendar of conferences and meetings for New York based bodies has been generated by e Meets, on an experimental basis. This reversed the traditional approach whereby individual departments or intergovernmental bodies were asked to submit their requests for biennial sessional dates, which were incorporated into the draft calendar and accommodated as much as possible.

15. Requests the Secretary General to develop further the functions of the Electronic Meetings Planning and Resource Allocation System (e Meets) as the central tool for managing meetings to cover the entire spectrum of meeting related activities and to continue consultations with other duty stations in order to expand its application across duty stations, or to integrate the system into other systems used in such offices