Approves the establishment of the Committee of Permanent Representatives as an intersessional subsidiary body of the Commission on Human Settlements and endorses the terms of reference given to it by the Commission; decides that the Committee may set up working groups without prior decision of the Economic and Social Council or the Commission; asks the Commission to ammend its rules of procedure in order to take into account the establishment of the Committee of Permanent Representatives.

Adopted without vote, 45th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2001, New York, 29-31 Jan. 2001; resumed organizational session for 2001, New York, 8, 13 and 22 March, 3 May and 4 June 2001; substantive session of 2001, Geneva, 2-26 July 2001; resumed substantive session of 2001, New York, 10 and 24 Oct. and 20 Dec. 2001 - E/2001/99 - p. 77-78 - (ESCOR, 2001, Suppl. no. 1).