The Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM) is held in two sessions during the interval between World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC). Typically, the first session takes place immediately following a WRC and the second session meets about six months before the next WRC. The outcome is the
CPM Report. The
CPM Report plays an important role in the decision-making process at the WRCs as it assists those involved in the preparations for and the deliberations at the next WRC.
The purpose of the first session of the Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM) is to organize the preparatory studies to be carried out by responsible and contributing groups of the ITU-R Study Groups, and to prepare a structure for the draft
CPM Report, based on the agenda for the next WRC and the preliminary agenda for the subsequent WRC.