Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants, draft minutes, resolution.
Relevant subjects: report of the Director General on ESA new directorate structure, payload on flight 502, Earth observation programmes.
Preparations for the follow-on meeting to the Toulouse ministerial conference, report by the Chairman of the working group on the scale of contributions for mandatory activities.
Programme matters: Ariane-5 programme, financial consequences and proposed measures, manned space flight and microgravity programme, Artemis, ESA ground segment for operations.
Finance matters: orientation for the revision of the 1997 budgets.
Legal matters: consultancy support for Finland: Teknologian Kehittaemiskeskus (TEKES), technical support to the Canadian Space Agency for the design of advanced communication systems.
Staff matters: report on amendments of staff regulations 20, 33, 46 and 49.
Report on Earth observation programmes.
As annexes: statement by the Chairman of Council on securing a continuing momentum in ESA.
Director general's report on transformation science, observation of the Earth and its environment, telecommunications, manned spaceflight and microgravity, launchers, ESTEC, ESRIN.
Statement concerning the memorandum of understanding negotiations on the international space station.
Resolution on the reallocation of 64 MECU to cover financial consequences of the Ariane 501 launch.

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It contains German text of the ESA/C/MIN/126, ADD. 2