日星期三下午 3 时至 4 时 30 分进行。在起草临时工作安排时，主席团试图平衡全体会议和非正式协商的工作，提供星期二和星期四下午的时段，专门进行非正式协商，但又不与全体会议重叠。主席团指出，主持人有权决定更改非正式协商的时间。鉴于需要进行非正式磋商，审议关于特别专题的决议草案和关于工作方法的决议草案(或决定)，主席团决定在会议续会两星期前开始关于提案草案的非正式协商。在主席团第 5 次会议上，主席团决定在 2016 年 3 月 29 日星期二开始进行非正式协商。在非正式协商的第一个星期里，讨论的重点是关于工作方法的决议(或决定)草案。关于特别专题和其他决定的非正式协商暂定于 4 月 4 日星期一开始。
In drafting the provisional organization of work, the Bureau attempted to balance the work in the plenary with informal consultations, providing time slots on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon devoted exclusively to the informal consultations, with no overlap with the plenary session. The Bureau noted, however, that it was always the prerogative of the facilitator(s) to decide on the correct timing of informal consultations. In the light of the need for informal consultations to consider both a draft resolution on the special theme and a draft resolution (or decision) on the methods of work, the Bureau decided to begin informal consultations on the draft proposals two weeks prior to the resumption of the session. At the fifth Bureau meeting, the Bureau therefore decided to begin informal consultations on Tuesday, 29 March 2016. During the first week of informal consultations, the focus would be on the draft resolution (or decision) on the methods of work. Informalconsultations on the special theme and any other decisions were tentatively scheduled to begin on Monday, 4 April.