Official issues : draft agendas with list of reference documents, list of participants, draft minutes, resolutions with budget. Relevant subjects: preparations for the Council meeting at ministerial level.
Programme matters: status report on Science programme, implementation of the "living planet"programme of Earth observation, telecommunications: multimedia services,
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), manned spaceflight ground segment and future of ESOC, Ariane-5 qualification, transformation programme, cooperation with the International Space University (ISU).
International relations: greater cooperation with EU, Euro-Asian Space Week in Singapore.
Finance matters: resolution on 1999 budgets for mandatory activities and budgets associated with the general budget, 1999 budget for Scientific Experiment Development Programme (PRODEX), proposed measures to keep the cost-at-completion of new optional programmes within the subscribed envelope.
Legal matters: calculation of geographical return coefficients, notice on approval of agreements and on Operational Meteorology (METOP-1) implementing rules, resolution updating the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) resolution for 1999-2000, resolution on future launchers technologies programmes, revised declaration on Future European Space Transportation Investigation Programme (FESTIP) continuation.
As annex: Director General's oral report concerning space science and Soho-re-certification, Earth observation, telecommunications, manned spaceflight and microgravity and cooperation with NASA, launchers.
As addenda amendments requested by the French and by the German delegations.

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