Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants, draft minutes, n.2 Resolutions and, as addendum, amendment proposed by the German delegation, plus corrigendum. Relevant subjects: Ground facilities for supporting ECS orbital operations
Coordinated utilisation of European test facilities
SPACELAB Programme (report by the Chairman of the Programme Board on the Follow-on Development (FOD), report by the Chairman of SPAG on 1. SPACELAB Payload (FSLP), note by the Italian delegation on industrial geographical return)
Preparation of the 1979 ITU World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC)
Report by the Chairman of the IPB-RS on the European Remote Sensing Programme
SEASAT-1 spacecraft failure
Proposals by the Director General for the integration of the Maspalomas station in Earthnet and for the execution of the SIRIO-2 programme
Proposal by the Executive for National Points of Contact (NPOC) contract guidelines, procedures for access to experimental data and 1979 Earthnet product prices and quotas
ARIANE launch pricing policy for Phase-3bis of the ECS programme
Financial matters (draft Resolution on the level of resources and the budgets for the mandatory activities for1978, authorisation of a short-term loan to cover the 1978 ARIANE negative reserve, interim report and recommendation by the Working Group on the IMF expertise, draft 1978 ESRANGE budget)
Legal matters (draft Agreement with the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation on the carriage of the AMSAT capsule, draft Agreement with the Max Planck Institute on the carriage of the FIREWHEEL spacecraft on ARIANE L-02 flight, draft Agreement with Interim EUTELSAT concerning the use of OTS, draft Implementing Rules for Earthnet Programme, draft rules for the implementation of the ASTP, revised list of ad-referendum votes)
Application from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for their access to the Space Documentation Service (SDS). Attached to the corrigendum : Resolution concerning the coordinated utilisation of European space test facilities
Resolution concerning the SIRIO-2 programme

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Minutes refer to Part I and Part II of the meeting