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(b) That the Director-General make suitable arrangements to ensure that the work of FAO in the field of European forestry and forest products is carried out in close co-operation with ECE and other United Nations bodies and specialized agencies. (2) European Medium- and Long-term Forestry Recommends that the European countries concerned should meet together from time to time within the framework of FAO to exchange information and views about their problems in the field of medium- and long-term forestry. (3) Reafforestation of Mediterranean Area and Near East Recommends that forestry experts under the auspices of FAO visit all countries in the Mediterranean area and the Near East (Middle East) which may express interest in a reafforestation program, commencing in Greece, and requests the Director-General to submit to the next session of FAO's annual Conference, together with the findings of these experts, recommendations for effective action in those regions. (4) Inventories and Statistics Recommends that all governments supply the statistical information concerning forestry and forest products which may be requested as speedily as possible in order to enable FAO to publish such statistics at the appointed date. (5) National Subcommittees Recalling that the Second Session of the Conference held in Copenhagen in 1946 recommended that all countries should establish special subcommittees on forestry and forest products as part of their FAO National Committees, and noting that certain countries had not yet constituted such subcommittees, Invites the countries concerned to establish subcommittees as soon as possible. {e) Economics, Marketing, and Statistics The Conference — (1) Program of Division s Work Recommends (a) That the Director-General circulate to all member governments at convenient intervals a list of important new tasks which the division has been asked to undertake and invite the opinion of governments regarding the relative importance of these various proposals, (b) That member governments when they receive such communications should reply to the Director-General as rapidly as possible, and (c) That the Director-General, when he receives these replies, should consider them in consultation, if time permits, with the most appropriate authority in the Organization and decide which of these new tasks, if any, the division is in a position to undertake within the limits of available funds.