The Assembly, Recalling the directives contained in resolutions A.500(Ⅻ) and A.900(21) concerning coordination of the work of the committees by the Council to ensure consistency with the overall goals of the Organization, taking into account the views of the committees on priorities and their responsibilities for substantive technical and legal matters, Recalling also the Assembly's commitment, in resolution A.777(18), to improving the work methods and organization of work of the Organization, Recalling further resolutions A.1060(28) and A.106K28), by which it approved, respectively, the Strategic Plan for the Organization for the six-year period 2014 to 2019 and the High-level Action Plan of the Organization and priorities for the 2014-2015 biennium, Recalling in particular its adoption of resolution A.1013(26) on Guidelines on the Application of the Strategic Plan and the High-level Action Plan of the Organization and its request to the Council to keep those guidelines under review, Reaffirming: 1. that the Organization's Strategic Plan contains key strategic directions enabling IMO to achieve its mission objectives; and 2. that the High-level Action Plan has been developed to enable the Organization to effectively address those strategic directions by identifying high-level actions that are necessary for the achievement of IMO's objectives and the priorities over a biennium resulting from those identified actions, thereby providing the linkage between the Organization's strategy, the work of the various IMO organs and the biennial budget, Recognizing the need for a uniform basis for the application of the Strategic Plan and the High-level Action Plan throughout the Organization, and for the strengthening of existing working practices through the provision of enhanced planning and management procedures that are flexible, manageable, proportional, transparent and balanced, Having considered the recommendations of the Council, at its twenty-seventh extraordinary session, for the adoption of revised guidelines on the application of the Strategic Plan and the High-level Action Plan, 1 Approves the Guidelines on the application of the Strategic Plan and the High-level Action Plan of the Organization, as set out in the annex to the present resolution; 2 Requests the Council and the committees to review and revise, during the 2014 2015 biennium, the guidelines for the organization and method of their work, taking account of the Guidelines on the application of the Strategic Plan and the High-level Action Plan of the Organization, as appropriate; 3 Requests the Secretary-General to review and adjust present processes and work methods within the Secretariat in the light of the Guidelines on the application of the Strategic Plan and the High-level Action Plan of the Organization; and to develop practical means with the aim of facilitating and supporting the implementation of the Guidelines throughout the Organization; 4 Directs the Council to keep the annexed Guidelines under review; 5 Revokes resolution A.1013(26).
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