Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2017
[Reproduced from U.N. Document E/C . 10/1982/6 of June 5, 1982, Annex.
[The Report of the Commission on Transnational Corporations on its second session , March 1-12, 1976, in which the procedures and schedule for the formulation of a code of conduct are discussed , appears at 15 I.L.M. 779 (1976). The Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on a Code of Conduct on it s first and second sessions , January 10-15,1977, and April 18-May 4, 1977, appears at 16 I.L.M. 709 (1977) . The Intergovernmental Working Group has subsequently held seventeen sensor the seventeenth taking place May 10-21 , 1982. The draft document reproduced is the result of the seventeen sessions .]
* On the grounds, inter alia, that the text within the first pair of brackets goes beyond the mandate of the Intergovernmental working Group on a Code of Conduct.
* To be included in one of the substantive introductory parts of the Code.
* In this alternative, the sentence will end here.
** Some delegations preferred not to have a second sentence.
* It is agreed that the last bracketed text will be deleted provided that the concept embodied therein is referred to in the section on objectives.
* Further discussion of this provision will take place after related issues, such as the mode of adoption and the legal nature of the Code, have been settled.o[Reproduced from the text provided by the U.S. Department of State.]