Official issues : draft agenda, list of participants, draft minutes, resolutions.
Relevant subjects: report of the Director General, preparations for the follow-on meeting to the Toulouse ministerial conference, report by the Chairman of the working group on industrial policy and return imbalances and discussion of the delegations, review of the system for calculating the scale of contributions to mandatory activities.
Programme matters: Ariane-5 post-501 situation, negotiations on ESA/NASA space station memorandum of understanding, science and transformation programmes.
Finance matters: scale of contributions to mandatory activities for 1997-1999, 1997 budget, improvement of treasury management.
Legal matters: agreement with Eumetsat on Operational Meteorology (METOP) satellite series, agreements with NASDA concerning Artemis and ERS-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data.
Contract matters: support to European Committee for Standardisation (Comité Européen de Normalisation, CEN), Societé Européenne des Satellites (Luxembourg), Italian SICRAL mission.
Report on the science programme.
As annex: text of Director General's report on Ariane 5 action plan and operations leading to Ariane flight 502, transformation programme, science, observation of the Earth and its environment, telecommunications, manned spaceflight and microgravity, launchers, ESTEC, ESOC, ESRIN.
Resolutions and act in Council: Act in Council on measures related to the fulfilment of the Ariane 5 development programme, resolutions on the reform of ESA budget structure and charging policy, on application of certain provisiosn of the financial regulations to the scientific programme, on contribution scale for mandatory activities from 01/01/1997, on 1997 budgets, on accounts for the financial year 1995.

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