– 120 – (4 – General Secretariat) recalling Resolution 1110 adopted by the Council at its 1997 session, which resolved, inter alia, that the ITU secretariat should continue to provide support to the GMPCS-MoU activities on the basis of full cost recovery, recognizing that this was an acceptable role of the ITU secretariat, considering further a) that the role of ITU as depositary of the GMPCS-MoU and its Arrangements is identified as part of the goals, and is consistent with the vision for ITU, contained in the draft Strategic Plan 1999-2003; b) that this role, while it will benefit the GMPCS industry and users worldwide, will also contribute to the relevance of the Union to the future of global telecommunications, taking account of Recommendation 8 adopted by the World Telecommunication Development Conference (Valletta, 1998) entitled Timely Implementation of GMPCS, which notes the need for global implementation of the Arrangements so that the benefits of GMPCS services can be extended to all countries in a timely fashion, resolves 1 to instruct the Secretary-General: 1.1 to act as depositary of the GMPCS-MoU and its Arrangements and to make available the information supplied by the Signatories implementing the Arrangements; 1.2 to act as the registry for type-approval procedures that administrations and/or competent authorities have notified to ITU as having been used to approve terminals; 1.3 to act as the registry of terminal types once administrations and/or competent authorities have notified to ITU that terminals have been granted type approval; 1.4 to authorize the use7 of the abbreviation “ITU” as part of the GMPCS-MoU mark on the understanding that ITU shall be protected against liability from such use; 2 that action under resolves 1.1 to 1.4 above shall be carried out in accordance with the Arrangements on the basis of full cost recovery, the details relating to the use of contributions by the Signatories being defined in consultation between them and the Secretary-General. Ref.: Documents C98/100 and C98/120. R 1320 (C10) Four year-rolling Operational Plan for the General Secretariat for 2011-2014 The Council, recognizing the provisions of Article 5 of the Convention, having considered the draft four-year rolling Operational Plan for the General Secretariat for 2011-2014 (see http://www.itu.int/council/C2010/pd/op-sg2011-2014.pdf , ____________________ 7 The conditions of this use will be reviewed in the light of the results of Resolution 1117.