It could coordinate the validation testing of CPC categories.

Pursuant to the recommendation of the Special Committee, the validity of tests administered by the Civilian Police Selection Assistance Teams (SAT) has been extended from 8 to 12 months for candidates assessed after 31 October 2001.

Official validation, by means of tests or exams, must be put in place.

6.3.5.1.8 Provided the validity of the test results is not affected and with the approval of the competent authority, several tests may be made on one sample.

The Special Committee believes that the validity of the tests administered by Civilian Police Selection Assistance Teams (SAT) should be 12 months, and requests the Secretariat to incorporate this revision accordingly into the SAT guidelines currently in use.

The organizations committed themselves to support the validation and testing of the new system, to be accompanied by the development of monitoring, training and accountability measures.

As concerns voter registration, a validation test of registration equipment was conducted from 25 April to 1 May, and the first batch of voter registration machines is expected to arrive in the country by early June.

The initial focus on exemptions resulted in affidavits dealing extensively with the validity of school-readiness tests in a multicultural society, the main disagreement between the respective experts being whether reliable and objective tests could at present be employed in South Africa.”

Areas that require particular attention include revision of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations; consolidation, inventorization, reconciliation and valuation of all expendable and non-expendable property; computation and validating of the opening balances; testing of the proposed new enterprise resources planning system; and training of relevant staff.

Meetings attended: Attended numerous national and international meetings including: contributed to the organization of 19 training courses on drug identification and analysis in cooperation, including serving as chairman of the consultative meeting on the development of guidelines for validation of analytical methodology for testing drugs, Beijing, 1996; head of Chinese delegations to International Association of Forensic Toxicologists Congress eight times (1988-1996); chaired section on forensic science national structures at the thirteenth International Association of Forensic Science, held in Duesseldorf, Germany, in August 1993; deputy head of Chinese delegation and vice-president, third meeting of Indo-Pacific Association of Law Medicine and Science, held in Madras, India, November 1989; head of Chinese delegations to the thirty-third and thirty-eighth meetings of the Association of Forensic Science Congress of the United States of America; held posts as President, Vice-President and Secretary-General respectively at several of the congresses of the Forensic Medicine Association of China.