Assembly/AU/Dec.372(XVII) Page 1 DECISION ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION INTO THE AFRICAN UNION AUTHORITY Doc. Assembly/AU/9(XVII) The Assembly, 1. TAKES NOTE of the Progress Report of the Commission on the Implementation of Assembly Decision Assembly/AU/ Dec.341(XVI) on the Transformation of the African Union Commission into the African Union Authority adopted by the Sixteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 31 January 2011; 2. DECIDES to defer consideration of this item to the next Ordinary Session of the Assembly in January 2012.