Official issues : draft agenda, list of participants, draft minutes and, as addenda, amendments requested by French and UK delegations. Relevant subjects : Financial matters (report on the execution of the 1976 Budgets and proposals for the carry-forward to 1977 of unused Contract Authority and unspent payment appropriations, adjustments of 1976 contributions, updating procedure, Council Resolution correcting the negative effects of inflation and variations in exchange rates, ESA cost planning, exchange rates applicable to provident fund operations, proposed solution to cover shortfalls in the ESRANGE budget for the 1. half of 1977, 2. call-up of 1977 contributions)
Personnel matters (status of the meteorological staff of MOD, staff loans policy)
Legal matters (draft Memorandum of Understanfing with Sweden concerning the use of ESRANGE for the reception of LANDSAT data, draft Terms of Reference of the Interim Remote Sensing Programme Board and legal framework for the Earthnet Programme, OTS and MAROTS launch contracts, 2. METEOSAT flight model as principal passenger for ARIANE-L-03)
ESA Headquarters (purchase of the Mario Nikis annex). As Annex n.2 :note by the French delegation on NASA requirements in the matter of third-party liability and negotiations with the Bowring firm of insurance brokers

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