Official issues : draft agenda, list of participants and draft minutes. Relevant subjects : Financial matters (adjustments of 1975 contributions, 1. revision of the 1976 budgets, new scale of contributions to the 1977 General and Scientific Programme Budgets, draft revision of the Financial rules, proposal concerning a possible cover of the shortfalls in the 1976 ESRANGE and CSG/Kourou budgets, financial problems associated with the introduction of the pension scheme, request to unblock the reserve for price variations for constructions costs of the new Headquarters building, financing of the new ESA Headquarters building, proposal by the Director General for a level of resources for 1977, request by the Director General to unblock the blocked contributions expenditure of the 1976 ARIANE budget, reimbursement to ELDO of Italian taxes)
Personnel matters (1976 annual review of subsistence allowances for staff travelling on duty, procedure for adjustment of remunerations of staff serving in the coordinated organisations, pension scheme rules)
Legal matters (international liability for damage caused during the execution of an ESA programme, draft Agreement between Germany and ESA on social security, draft Exchange of Letters with Iran on the exchange of information)
Decoration of the new Headquarters building

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