Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants, draft minutes, resolutions.
Relevant subjects: report by the Director General following the Granada meeting on funding of continued ERS-1 operations, ESA financial rules, Hermes programme finalisation
Implementation of the decisions taken in Granada concerning Polar Orbit Earth Observation Mission (POEM-1) programme, Data Relay Technology Mission (DRTM), Hermes declarations, Columbus development programme, draft agreement between ESA and the French Government, reform of contribution adjustments following conversion rate variations
Finance matters: approval of the resolution on extension of application of the special measures to the sciences and Hermes programmes, replacement of a member and nomination of the new Chairman of the Audit Commission
Legal and international matters: Memorandum of Understanding between ESA and NASA on the Automated Rendez-vous and Capture (ARC) project, draft agreement with Finland concerning the General Support Technology Programme (GSTP), draft implementing rules of Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme
Service for third parties: extension of consultancy for the Commission of the European Communities, renewal of consultancy support to National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) in relation to procurement of European hardware, Space Debris, Chairmanship of Council and the delegate bodies
As addenda: comments of the Finnish delegation on negotiations between ESA and Finland concerning Finland's membership in ESA; Director general oral report to Council on revision of projects as established in Granada; amendments to draft minutes requested by the German, United Kingdom, Norwegian delegations

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