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limited and clearly defined by the Commission Board. A subdivision of the field of a Com- 
mission into Working Groups acting virtually as independent Commissions shall not be per- 
missible. 
The Working Group shall consist of 
— the Chairman of the Working Group and 
— a small group of Specialists chosen by the Chairman, not in consideration of country but of 
qualification. 
If necessary the Group may ask certain specialists outside the group to act as Contact Men in 
their countries, 
A Working Group shall not be set up until it has been established that the Member to which 
the Chairman belongs will provide the financial and technical support necessary. 
A Working Group may be appointed to study a problem pertinent to the fields of more than 
one Commission. It shall then be called an Inter-Commission Working Group. The President of 
the initiating Commission shall notify his intention to the Council and reach agreement with 
the Presidents of other Commissions concerned. 
The Council shall pronounce on the advisability of setting up such an Inter-Commission 
Working Group, determine if need be the terms of reference and duration of its mission and 
designate the Commission which it most concerns and within which it shall make its report. 
Such a Working Group shall not be permitted to develop gradually into any kind of inde- 
pendent Commission. 
Each Working Group shall report annually to the Commission Board(s) concerned and to the 
Council, in addition to reporting through the appropriate Commission at the Congress. 
When a Working Group has treated its subject sufficiently for the time being, or has been found 
to be inactive, the Council shall dissolve the Working Group normally on initiative of the Chair- 
man of the Group or the President of the Commission concerned. 
The Presidents of Commissions shall meet with the Council as and when necessary to coordi- 
nate the work of the Commissions and the preparations for the Congresses. 
Presidents of Commissions shall each appoint one or more persons at the beginning of each 
Congress to isolate during the Congress the more important problems needing solution and 
to prepare resolutions on the work needing to be done to solve them. 
At the beginning of every Congress the Presidents of Commissions shall meet under the chair- 
manship of the Senior Vice-President and shall appoint a Resolutions Committee. The Resolu- 
tions Committee shall consist of three to five suitably qualified persons under the chairmanship 
of the Senior Vice-President. They shall be charged with examining the drafts of all resolutions 
prepared by the Technical Commissions in respect of their practicability and of their coordina- 
tion. They shall report their findings to the President of the Society and to the Presidents of 
the Technical Commissions. They shall ensure that the final agreed resolutions to be put to 
Congress are arranged in a suitable standard form in the three official languages and that the 
texts of the three languages are in reasonable accord, for which purpose, if one of the official 
languages is not the mother tongue of any member of the Committee, the Committee shall 
co-opt a colleague possessing that mother tongue. 
The seat of the Society is designated by the General Assembly. Provided that the Statutes and 
Bye-Laws of the Society do not run counter to the laws pertaining to associations in the 
country where the Secretary General is domiciled, the residence of the Secretary General 
shall be chosen as the seat of the Society. 
The French Text of the present Statutes and Bye-Laws shall be considered to be the definitive 
version. 
The official languages of the Society shall be English, French and German. During the Con- 
gress, the Congress Committee may offer, entirely at its own expense, translations in a language 
of the host Country. 
Adopted by the General Assembly of the International Society for Photogrammetry 
on July 9th, 1968 in Lausanne. 
The President: H. Harry 
The Secretary General: W. Bachmann 
Composition 
Inter-Commission 
Working Group 
Reports 
Dissolution 
Coordination 
Resolutions 
Resolutions Committee 
Seat and 
Jurisdiction 
Interpretation of 
Statutes and 
Bye-Laws 
Official Languages 
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