A/RES/55/194 III Arrangements regarding accreditation of Habitat Agenda partners to the special session 1. Decides that accreditation to the special session shall be open to: (a) Habitat Agenda partners that were accredited to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II); (b) Non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, with the exception of those whose application for consultative status with the Council has been rejected or whose consultative status has been withdrawn or suspended; 2. Also decides that accreditation of other interested and relevant Habitat Agenda partners that were not accredited to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) should be considered by the Preparatory Committee, provided that those partners submit to the Committee composed of the Bureau of the Preparatory Committee and the Secretariat by 9 February 2001 an application for accreditation containing the following information: (a) The purpose of the organization; (b) Information identifying the programmes and activities of the organization in areas relevant to the subject of the special session and indicating in which country or countries they are carried out; (c) Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the national, regional or international levels; (d) Copies of annual or other reports of the organization, with financial statements and a list of financial sources and contributions, including governmental contributions; (e) A list of the members of the governing body of the organization and their country of nationality; (f) A description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members, the names or organizations that are members and their geographical distribution; (g) A copy of the constitution and/or by-laws of the organization; and further decides that the Bureau of the Preparatory Committee should submit by 19 February 2001 to the Preparatory Committee at its second session a list of partners that have submitted their application containing information on each partner’s competence and relevance to the subject of the special session, and that the Preparatory Committee at its second session shall decide on a no-objection basis regarding the accreditation of those partners; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to disseminate widely all available information on accreditation procedures for the special session; 4. Decides that the arrangements set out above concerning accreditation to the special session shall in no way create a precedent for other special sessions of the General Assembly; 3