Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants, draft minutes, resolutions.
Relevant subjects: report of the Director General on situation created by the failure of Ariane flight 501.
Programme matters: Ariane flight 501: cluster and Ariane-5 programmes, manned spaceflight and microgravity, progress of space station and memorandum of understanding negotiations, ARTEMIS programme, schedule of payment appropriations of Envisat polar platform, transformation programme, long-term space policy committee.
Industrial policy matters: report by the Chairman of the working group on industrial policy.
Finance matters: examination by the Audit Commission of ESA exchange loss situation.
Legal matters: agreements concerning ERS data, Kiruna Earthnet situation, Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), customs clearance procedures' agreement with Russia, dissolution of the Documentation Advisory Group (DAG), Microgravity Facilities for Columbus (MFC) programme.
Contract matters: support services to the European Commission on behalf of Regional African Satellite Communication Organization (RASCOM) and of the Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS).
Personnel matters: amendments to the staff regulations and rules, pension scheme, chairmanship of Council and other delegate bodies.
Resolutions on dissolution of DAG and on the chairmanship of delegate bodies.
As annexes: Director general's report on transformation programme, science, observation of the Earth and its environment, telecommunications, manned spaceflight and microgravity, launchers, ESTEC, OPS, ESRIN.
Report to Council by the Chairman of the Council Working Group on industrial policy.

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