The rules of the Bureau are found under Article 3 of the Rules of Procedure of the Governing Board (AB/1/3 revised 20 October 2005 see GB/75/7). The Bureau takes urgent or necessary decisions between meetings of the Governing Board. These decisions are then ratified at the next Governing Board meeting. The Bureau first met on 11 January 1977. Early meetings of the Bureau concerned the preparation of the Foundation’s work programmes, the formal opening of the Foundation in 1978 (B/6/5) and the matter of the ‘urgent revision of conditions of employment of the staff in Berlin and Dublin’ (B/7/4). Bureau meetings were always held in Brussels and were originally coordinated by the European Commission. The working language of the Bureau was originally French.

Records of the Bureau include agendas and minutes of Bureau meetings, draft budgets, draft annual work programmes, draft four-year rolling programmes, discussion papers on various aspects of the Foundation’s work programmes, draft agendas of Governing Board meetings, documents concerned with staff regulations and the administrative decisions, including service and study contracts taken by the Bureau. The records within this collection are arranged and presented in the order in which they were used by the Bureau.

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