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(d) Such agreements shall include provision for adequate participation of countries substantially interested in the importation or consumption of the commodity as well as those substantially interested in its exportation or production. (e) Full publicity shall be given to any inter-governmental commodity agreement proposed or concluded, to the statementsof considerations and objectives advanced by the proposing Members, to the nature and development of measures adopted to correct the underlying situation which gave rise to the agreement and, periodically, to the operation of the agreement. 2. The Members, including Members not parties to a particular commodity agreement, shall give favourable consideration to any recommendation made under the agreement for expanding consumption of the commodity in question. Article 61 Types of Agreements 1. For the purposes of this Chapter, there are two types of intergovernmental commodity agreements : [a) Commodity control agreements as defined in this Article; and (b) Other inter-governmental commodity agreements. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 5, a commodity control agreement is an inter-governmental agreement which involves : [a) The regulation of production or the quantitative control of exports or imports of a primary commodity and which has the purpose or might have the effect of reducing, or preventing an increase in, the production of, or trade in, that commodity; or (b) The regulation of prices. 3. The Organization shall, at the request of a Member, a study group or a commodity conference, decide whether an existing or proposed inter-governmental agreement is a commodity control agreement within the meaning of paragraph 2. 4. (a) Commodity control agreements shall be subject to all the provisions of this Chapter. (b) Other inter-governmental commodity agreements shall be subject to the provisions of this Chapter other than those of Section C. If, however, the Organization decides that an agreement which involves the regulation of production or the quantitative control of exports or imports is not a commodity control agreement within the meaning of paragraph 2, it shall prescribe the provisions of Section C, if any, to which that agreement shall conform. 5. An existing or proposed inter-governmental agreement the purpose of which is to secure the co-ordinated expansion of aggregate world production and consumption of a primary commodity may be treated