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organisations on the arrangements
being made for the 1980 Olympic
Games;
— to study the appropriate documents
and progress made so far and
to receive the required information on
specific matters from the departments
and sectors of the OCOG-80;
— to take decisions and issue
recommendations in their respective
fields and to send them out to ministries,
government agencies, and organisations
for consideration and action
that might be deemed necessary;
— to apply to any ministry, government
agency, or public organisation
for advice and consultation on
the organisation of the Games, inviting
for this purpose scientists or
engineers, when necessary, with the
permission of the superiors of those
experts;
— to set up working groups, with
the approval of senior officers of the
ministries, government agencies, or
organisation concerned, in order to
prepare proposals on certain specific
problems.
While discussing general or overlapping
questions, the commissions
had the right:
— to ask for the opinions of other
commissions who were obliged to
consider such questions and to communicate
their conclusions within the
shortest time possible;
— to submit comments and suggestions
on matters under consideration
by other commissions.
The Presidium directed the activities
of the commissions. The membership
and the statute specifying the objectives
and functions of every commission
were subject for approval by the
Presidium.
The Chairman of a commission
prepared and held its meetings, invited
representatives from ministries,
government agencies, organisations,
or institutions not on the commission
when their presence was desirable,
approved plans for the commission's
work and supervised the implementation
of the plans and decisions entered
into the minutes.
The commissions met whenever
necessity arose—once or twice every
three months at an early stage and as
often as once a month or more at the
final stage of preparations.
The commissions drew on the experience
of the previous Olympic
Games as well as other major international
and regional sports competitions,
and had access to reports of the
organisers of those events. The chairmen
and members of the commissions
were included in the delegations of
technical observers of the OCOG-80
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and other delegations which visited
other countries to look into the preparations
for and staging of the Olympic
Games and other major sports
events.
The commission chairmen attended
meetings of the OCOG-80 and
its Presidium; they were invited to the
meetings of the Executive Bureau to
discuss questions within their terms of
reference.
The Chairman of a commission
reported to the Presidium once every
three months. These reports helped to
detect flaws in the organisation, to
make the work of the commissions
more active and specific. The activities
of the commissions were examined
repeatedly by the OCOG at its meetings
which every time adopted detailed
resolutions to help make the
commissions more efficient.
Thus, the commissions were effective
public organisations which linked
the OCOG with ministries, government
agencies, public and state organisations
and institutions. They made an
important contribution to the completion
of the sports programme, construction
of sports installations, preparation
of the city facilities for the
reception and accommodation of the
participants and guests of the Olympics.
Other areas where the commissions
were particularly helpful included
technical facilities, transport,
the economic programme, the cultural
programme, and security.
The Republican Organising Committee
for the Olympic Regatta
(OCOG-OR80) was set up in Tallinn,
the capital of Estonia, for the yachting
competitions. It was headed by the
OCOG-80's Vice-President Arnold
Green, Deputy Chairman of the Council
of Ministers of the Estonian SSR. It
was made up of 52 representatives
from sports and public organisations
of the republic, of executives of republican
ministries, agencies, and
state institutions.
The Leningrad City Organising
Committee and Republican Ukrainian
and Byelorussian Organising Committees
Olympiad-80, all headed by members
of the OCOG-80, covered the
preparations for the Olympic football
matches in Leningrad, Kiev, and
Minsk. The Leningrad City Committee
was headed by M. D. Filonov, the First
Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the City Soviet of People's
Deputies. Pavel Esipenko, Deputy
Chairman of the Council of Ministers
of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,
was the President of the Ukrainian
Republican Organising Committee
and Vladimir Mitskevich, the First
Deputy Chairman of the Council of