Official issues : draft agenda, list of participants, draft minutes and, as addendum, amendments requested by the Chairman of the AFC, plus corrigendum. Relevant subjects : Financial matters (draft Resolution on the level of resources and ESA 1978 budgets, 1. revision of the 1978 budgets, proposal for transfer of contract authority and payment appropriations within the 1978 Science Budget, draft Council Resolution on the provisional application of the ESA Financial Regulations)
Personnel matters (situation of ESA staff serving in the USA, the remaining 20% of the advance on the cost-of-living adjustment as at 01/01/1977, staff loans policy, adaption of the scale used for the calculations of the internal tax, setting-up of a joint pensions administrative section, annual review of subsistence allowances for staff travelling on duty)
Legal matters (ESA policy in the matter of launch insurance, draft rules of the implementation of the ASTP, draft rules concerning the execution of the extension phase of the MAROTS programme, draft Memoranda of Understanding between ESA and NASA for the reception of NIMBUS-G and SEASAT-A data)

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