Official issues: outline of basic features, sectors of investigation and tentative planning, medium-term time table 1994-1997 and key events leading to the actual use of ECU1994 study-definition phase and draft milestone plan, industrial policy aspects, contractual aspects and main legal adaptation requirements, preliminary comments on the legal implications, budgetary implications of introducing the all-ECU system. As addenda: paper on work package no 2 concerning introduction of the ECU within ESA and evolution of the European monetary system , simulated 1994-1996 scale of contribution for mandatory activities under various fixed reference rates, updating and backdating, work package no 3 on industrial policy concerning explanation of the neutralising effect in the industrial return statistics of the adoption of the all-ECU system, work package no 4 on legal aspects concerning basic decisions needed for ECU system implementation, work package no 1 on contractual aspects.

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