A/RES/50/206 Page 5 7. Invites all bodies to consider the possibility of biennializing or triennializing the presentation of reports, to review the necessity of all recurrent documents with a view to streamlining documentation and contributing to savings and to make appropriate recommendations; 8. Encourages members of intergovernmental bodies: (a) To consider the possibility of requesting oral reports, without prejudice to the provision of information to delegations in all the official languages; (b) To request consolidated reports on related topics under a single item or sub-item where appropriate and cost-effective; 9. Requests the Secretary-General: (a) To provide an oral estimate of the cost of documents or reports requested by Member States, without prejudice to the right of intergovernmental bodies to request such documents or reports; To seek a more reader-friendly and uniform format of reports, (b) taking into account new publishing technologies, that would include sections containing the objective of the report, an executive summary, the conclusions drawn and, as appropriate, the action proposed to be taken by the body, and to submit proposals thereon to the General Assembly through the Committee on Conferences; 10. Endorses the recommendation made by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions that the Joint Inspection Unit be requested to conduct a comprehensive survey of the role publications play in implementing mandates of intergovernmental bodies and the extent to which recurrent publications could be made more cost-effective in this regard; 7/ 11. Requests the Secretary-General to present to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session, through the Committee on Conferences and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, a report on the implementation of these measures, including information on possible savings. 100th plenary meeting 23 December 1995 D The General Assembly, Stressing the need to provide Member States and United Nations bodies, upon request, with more comprehensive and accurate information on the costs of meetings and documentation, Noting that the introduction of new technologies enhances the quality, cost-effectiveness and efficiency of conference services, Stressing also the importance of access to, and benefit from, the optical disk system and other new technologies in all official languages by 7/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Fiftieth Session, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (A/50/7 and Corr.1), para. 83. /...