Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants, draft summary minutes and, as addenda, amendments requested by UK and Spanish delegation, plus corrigendum.
Relevant subjects : Contracts (COS-B triggering telescope, ESRO future computer system, rider to a contract for technical assistance for operating satellite check-out stations, cooperation with Canada for a solar generator, design and development of antennas for communications satellites in the 11-GHz and 14-GHz bands, development of a modular repeater, development and qualification of a 11-GHz TWTA, purchase of a microfil plotter, Aeronautical Satellite Programme)
Financial matters (report on the implementation of the 1971 budget and proposals for the carry forward of unused contract authority and unspent payment appropriations to 1972, application of the new central rates of exchange to provident fund transactions, request for transfer in the 1972 budget concerning a COS-B experiment, 1972 draft ESRANGE Special Project budget)
Legal matters (Arrangements between participating Member States and ESRO and between ESRO and CNES concerning the execution of a Meteorological Satellite Programme (METEOSAT), cooperation with Canada for the Communication Satellite Programme)
Future policy for the Space Documentation Service.
As Annex n.2 : table showing criteria and weighting factors used in the evaluation of the contract on the Communications Satellite antennas

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