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The Association of Professional Staff (APS) and the Field Staff Association (FSA) today signed the RECOGNITION AGREEMENT with FAO establishing the Association of Professionals in FAO (AP in FAO). The recognition agreement was signed by James Butler, FAO Deputy Director-General on behalf of FAO and by David Macfarlane, President of APS, and Edward Seidler, Chairperson of FSA.

This landmark agreement sees the two associations representing professional staff merge into one association representing all professional staff in FAO. The new AP in FAO will create a united and stronger representation of FAO professional staff as FAO continues on its path of ‘reform with growth’.

Mr. Butler commended the two staff bodies on their merger and welcomed the new association as a stronger, united and more effective interlocutor with FAO management in these times of change.

The new association will now negotiate a Procedural Agreement with FAO management which will outline the mechanisms under which it will function and the support to be received from FAO.

The first General Assembly of the joint membership will be held in September in order to ratify the association’s new Statutes and Rules of Procedure.

There is no need for re-enrolment in the new association for current members of APS and FSA – they are considered to be members of AP in FAO.