Official issues : draft agendas, draft minutes, list of participants plus addendum and revision. Relevant subjects: status report on the manned space programme, policy for industrialization and commercialization of the ISS exploitation programme, additional contribution by Belgium and Spain to the CRV activities through the GSTP, EAC operations within manned space programmes, ESA/DLR arrangement concerning cooperation on EAC operations, report by EUB chairman, approach for developing the variable cost contribution scheme for ISS exploitation, work plan for 2000, status of implementation of early utilization on the ISS, implementation of the Council Resolution on economic conditions in budgets and Declarations, status of MIR station, long-term plan, EAC, EUB meeting in Cologne on 9 May, procurement status and outlook for the European participation in the ISS development programme,

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