Official issues : draft revised agenda, list of participants, draft resolution on Chairmanship of the delegate ESA bodies, draft minutes. Relevant subjects: Report by Director General, report by Chairman of the Working group on Council meeting at ministerial level on European long term space plan, industrial policy matters. Programme matters: extension of preparatory programmes, Hermes, European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA), Columbus, Ariane and post-V18 work, evolution of Science Programme and reply to French note on Science Programme Committee (SPC), Industrial policy. Finance matters: new contribution scale for mandatory activities, Audit Commission staff, retroactive adjustment of 1986 contributions, activities for third parties. Legal matters: MOU with Australian on relocation of ESA ground station to Perth, list of ad referendum votes, chairmanship of Council and ESA delegate bodies. As annexes:oral report by Director General to Council concerning Science, Earth Observation and Microgravity, Telecommunications, Space Station and Platform
Risk management
Conclusion of the Executive on coherence of Ariane 5.and Hermes
Final report by J. J. Dordain on major findings of the Task Force on Columbus, Hermes and Ariane
Position of the German delegation on ESA Long Term Plan (LTP)
Progress report on post-V 18/pre-flight V 19 activities

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