Development and Approval of Administrative Documents

This procedure should be followed when developing Administrative Documents:

  1. Member Economy, Working Group or Secretariat establishes a requirement and brief to develop a proposal, decision paper or procedure document.

  2. President circulates the first draft of the Administrative Document to the Executive Committee, providing 1 month for feedback. 

  3. Secretariat revises and improves the draft based on comments received from the Executive Committee.
    1. Draft is uploaded to Member Only section of the APLMF website (documents for review).

  4. Secretariat requests comments from members providing a 3 month response time.

  5. Secretariat improves the document based on feedback/comments received from members. 
    1. If significant changes are made to a document following consultation, the Secretariat could elect to re-circulate to members for a further period of consultation. Secretariat determines what is significant.
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  6. Final draft approved by APLMF via on-line vote (with a 1 month response time) or vote at Forum meeting.  
    1. If a document is not approved the Executive will determine if we repeat steps 5-6 or shelve the project.
    2. Acceptance criteria will be agreement of >50% of votes cast by full member economies with abstentions and failures to reply not counted as votes cast. 

  7. Final Documents is published on the APLMF website.
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Administrative Documents  Under Development
Document Name
1. Secretariat drafts consultation or administrative document
2. President circulates document with Executive Committee
3. Secretariat requests comments from members
4. ​Secretariat updates document based on feedback
5. ​Final draft approved via vote
6. Final document is published on APLMF website
2017 Financial Report
​18-02-15
Approved by EC 18-04-05-
18-05-01
Consultation period ends 18-07-31
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