Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants and draft minutes. Relevant subjects : Financial matters (report on the execution of the 1979 budgets and proposals for the carry-forward to 1980 of unused contract authority and unspent payment appropriations, retroactive adjustments of 1979 contributions, 1. revision of the 1980 budgets, authorisation to contract short-term loan to cover the 1980 ARIANE negative reserve, draft revised 1980 budget for the Preparatory Remote Sensing Programme, procedure for comparing the cost to completion with the financial envelope of optional programmes and steps to be taken in the event of cost overruns, advance call-up of the 2. instalment of contributions for 1980, draft Council Resolution on the report of the Audit Commission on the 1978 accounts)
Participation of ESA in the construction of a preparation hall at the IABG Test Centre
Personnel matters (report of the Personnel Policy Working Group, 1980 review of the daily rates of subsistence allowance, staff rules governing Intellectual Property rights)
Legal matters (participation of Canada in Phase-B of the L-SAT programme and in the Preparatory Remote Sensing Programme). As Annex n.2 : note by the Italian delegation on the opportunity for the Chairman of the Audit Commission to attend Finance Group meetings

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