Subject 2 — Public Relations in Administration : I. Official Publications
| DOI | 10.1177/002085236102700418 |
| Author | John Simpson,Suzanne Honoré,M.-A. Estas |
| Published date | 01 December 1961 |
| Date | 01 December 1961 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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requirements
would
thus
be
met
as
rapidly
as
possible,
particularly
as
regards
the
de-
termination
of
missions.
The
wish
was
also
expressed
that,
before
leaving
on
missions,
as
many
experts
as
possible
might
spend
some
time
at
IIAS
Headquarters
to
complete
their
preparation
by
having
direct
access
to
the
store
of
information
there,
which
would
increase
in
the
future.
The
Working
Group
concluded
by
expres-
sing
the
wish
that
as
many
countries
as
possible
would,
whether
or
not
they
had
sent
in
a
report
for
the
Round
Table,
let
the
In-
stitute
have,
at
the
latest
by
1
March
1962,
full
and
up-to-date
information
about
their
national
organization
or
re-organization,
and
their
experiences
and
practices
in
the
field
of
technical
assistance
in
public
administration,
as
well
as
any
comments
they
might
consider
suitable
as
a
result
of
the
Group’s
work.
The
information
and
comments
would
be
helpful
for
the
final
drafting
of
the
general
report
in
accordance
with
the
plan
that
had
been
devised
and
perfected.
Subject
2 —
Public
Relations
in
Administration :
I.
Official
Publications.
Chairman :
Sir
John
Simpson
(United
Kingdom)
General
Rapporteur :
Mrs.
Suzanne
Honoré
(France)
Minute-Writer :
Miss
M.-A.
Estas
(HAS)
The
following
twenty-seven
countries
had
replied
to
the
questionnaire
prepared
last
year
at
the
San
Remo
Colloquium :
two
African
countries
(Ethiopia
and
Sudan),
two
American
countries
(Chili
and
Puerto
Rico),
six
Asian
countries
(Israel,
Japan,
Pakistan,
Thailand,
Turkey,
Viet-Nam)
and
seventeen
European
countries
(Austria,
Den-
mark,
Finland,
France,
Federal
Republic
of
Germany,
Hungary,
Ireland,
Italy,
Nether-
lands,
Norway,
Poland,
Portugal,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
United
Kingdom,
Yu-
goslavia).
The
discussion
followed
the
plan
prepared
by
the
General
Rapporteur
in
the
working
document
that
had
been
distributed
to
all
participants.
1.
Scope
of
the
Subject
There
were
very
appreciable
differences
in
the
national
reports
as
to
the
meaning
of
« official
publications
~.
Most
countries
had
adopted
the
meaning
defined
by
the
San
Remo
questionnaire,
« publications
for
which
public
authorities
or
public
law
entities
are
responsible
as
authors
or
publishers
~;
others
understood
the
term
in
a
much
narrower
sense,
so
as
to
include
only
the
publications
in
which
legal
texts
appeared,
and
to
ex-
clude,
for
instance,
publications
providing
general
information.
Such
was
the
case,
among
others,
of
Germany,
Italy
and
Poland.
The
General
Rapporteur
was
of
the
opi-
nion
that,
if
the
survey
was
to
be
focused
on
the
public
relations
approach,
it
was
absolute-
ly
essential
to
start
with
the
broadest
pos-
sible
definition
since
from
that
approach,
it
was
certain
that
pu lications
for
general
in-
formation
were
of
very
special
importance.
Certain
terminological
difficulties
were
point-
ed
out,
particularly
by
the
Italian
and
Ger-
man
delegates.
The
participants
finally
agreed
to
a
defini-
tion
proposed
by
the
General
Rapporteur
according
to
which,
for
the
pu’rposes
of
the
survey,
« official
publications.
should
be
taken
to
include
all
publications,
including
those
intended
to
provide
general
informa-
tion,
published
at
the
initiative
of
the
Ad-
ministration,
Government
or
Parliament.
It
was
also
agreed,
for
certain
federal
countries
(Germany
and
Yugoslavia),
to
take
the
official
publications
of
the
federate
states
into
account.
2.
Different
Kinds
of
Official
Publications
The
questionnaire
had
distinguished
dif-
ferent
kinds
of
official
publications,
from
official
gazettes
to
case-books.
It
had
also
distinguished
between
the
official
gazette
and
other
means
of
publishing
decisions.
From
the
Lisbon
exchanges
of
views,
it
would
seem
to
be
sufficient
to
distinguish
be-
tween
media
for
publishing
the
texts
of
laws,
and
other
official
publications.
Although
most
countries
have
an
« official
journal
or
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