– 99 – (3.2 – Council) ANNEX A (to Decision 519) 1 Each Sector Advisory Group, through consultations and taking into account conscious d) above, nominates up to three Sector Members to attend Council as observers representing the Sector Members of that Sector. 2 A facility at ITU headquarters shall be provided for all nominated Sector Member observers should it not be possible for all of them to be seated in the Council meeting room. This facility shall have a live one-way audio feed to the meeting. 3 The name of each nominated Sector Member observer shall be formally communicated to the Secretary-General by the Bureau Directors, with sufficient prior notice to facilitate the registration of these individuals. 4 At Council 2005 and 2006 sessions, no contributions, either written or oral, shall be permitted by the observers representing Sector Members in Council meetings, its committees or working groups, or in any groups created by them. 5 These observers representing Sector Members shall attend Council meetings at their own expense and only one individual from the designated Sector Member may be admitted. This function is not to add to the cost of each Sector or to be factored into its budgetary appropriation or operational plan. 6 Each Sector’s nomination of Sector Member observers should take into account the following factors: geographic distribution, Sector Member contributions to the Union, categories of Sector Members and commercial affiliation. Ref.: Documents C04/82 and C04/106. D 524 Participation of Observer Member States at ITU Council meetings (C05) The Council, considering the amendment made by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh, 2002) to No. 60A of the ITU Convention concerning Member State observers at Council, considering further Resolution 109 (Marrakesh, 2002) concerning the review and consolidation of provisions regarding observers which inter alia instructs Council to allow Member State observers to address meetings of Council at the invitation of the Chairman of the Council, noting that, consistent with No. 61B of the Convention, Council is responsible for aligning its Rules of Procedure with the text of the Constitution and Convention, taking into account Council Rules of Procedure (Rule 11) which requires that the admission of observers of Member States and their conditions of participation be applied to all meetings of Council, its committees and working groups,