Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants, draft minutes, resolutions. Relevant subjects: preparation of the 1998 ministerial Council meeting, evolution of ESA.
Programme matters: Ariane-5 qualification status report, Guiana Space Centre (CSG) for Ariane-4 launches, Long-term Space Policy Committee, Euromoon 2000 programme proposal, inter-agency coordination on ground facilities.
International matters and finance matters: 1998 budgets.
Personnel matters: remuneration of staff of coordinated organisations: 80th report.
Legal matters: Meteorological Operational satellite programme (MetOp), specific implementing rules for Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) element 3, Ariane-5, rules on use of ESA facilities and services by external parties.
Contract matters: ESA participation in the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), performance validation study, technical assistance to the National Space Program Office of China.
Programme reports on science programme.
Text of Director General's oral report on science, applications, manned spaceflight and microgravity, launchers, technical and operational support.
Resolutions on the Euromoon project, on 1998 budgets and on accounts for the financial year 1996. As annex: measures recommended in 1996 annual report.

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