Item 1: Draft Agenda of the third meeting of Administrative Board. Item 2: Minutes of the second meeting of the Administrative Board, 9 November 1976. Minutes detail the 'Discussion of Work Programme' (p.5), 'Adjustment of the Foundation's Budget to the subsidy approved by the Budgetary Authorities' (p.6) and 'General' which includes 'Fitting out of the Foundation' (p.7). Minutes are signed by Michel Carpentier, Chairperson of the Administrative Board, and W. de Jong, Director . A list of participants is attached, detailing participant's name, country, working group and title (in French) . 13pp. Item 3: Provisional statement of the Foundation's budget for 1978. The budget is preceded by a two page 'Explanatory Statement' outlining the 1978 budget. 19pp. The statement explains that the Foundation became operational in the functional sense on 1 September 1976 with appointment of Director and Deputy Director and notes that 'due to substantial reconstruction work necessary at Loughlinstown House and the need to build a conference hall' it would not be fully installed in its new premises until end 1977. '1978 will be the first year when the Foundation is equipped to carry out a fully-operational working programme.' Item 4: Statement of preliminary accounts for the year 1976 in which the Foundation's budget activities are recorded under headings including 'Appropriations entered in the Budget', 'Transfers made', and 'Payments'. Included also is a Balance Sheet at 31 December 1976. 15pp. Item 5: First progress report on the activities of the European Foundation for the period May 1976-February 1977. Report, by Wiebe de Jong, Director, issues his general report on the 'activities, financial situation and prospects of the Foundation' (p.1). 9pp. Item 6: Rules for constituting the Staff Committee as adopted by the Board of Management of the European Foundation. Rules are set out in 13 articles. 4pp. Item 7: Draft Work Programme for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (outcome of the meetings of the Administrative Board on 9 and 10 November and of its Bureau on 11 January 1977). 6pp. Also included is an extract from the Second Meeting of the Committee of Experts, 26 January 1977, including an oral report by the Director on the present operational situation of the Foundation (p.3) and an oral report by the Chairperson on the second meeting of the Administrative Board (p.5). 7pp. Item 8: Activity plan (AB/3/8(1)) and an amended activity plan (AB/3/8(2)) of the European Foundation for 1977. Plan, presented by Wiebe de Jong, Director, aims to 'give a clearer picture of the selection of activities' planned in 1977 on the basis of this medium-term programme.' 9pp. Included also is a three page revised activity plan for 1977 which lists themes for the plan including 'Shift-Work' (p.2), Safety and Health Protection' (p.2) and 'Data Processing and Working Conditions' (p.3). Item 9: AB/3/9(1)-Nomination of an Accounting Officer of the European Foundation. Nomination is not signed. AB/3/9(2)-Nomination of an Assistant Accounting Officer of the European Foundation,. Nomination is not signed. AB/3/9(3)-Decision to pay for medical examinations carried out on Foundation staff. Decision is not signed. AB/3/9(4)-Decision to transfer funds within Chapter 1 of the 1977 Budget and to delegate authority to the Director of the Foundation to transfer sums not in excess of 2000 units between articles. Decision is not signed. Decision is preceded by an explanation of the reasons for the transferral and an annex is included showing the transfers. 6pp. Item 10: Documents discussed under Any Other Business include a document on the 'Present position concerning the installation of the Foundation at Loughlinstown House' (AB/3/10(1)) and 'Arguments with regard to a necessary alteration of article 38 of the Foundation's staff regulations of 29 June 1976' (AB/3/10(3)). 4 items. Other: File of material, mainly correspondence, 30 November 1976-16 May 1977, relating to the third meeting of the Administrative board. topics include the search for a venue, 'while the Apartments are reserved for the more important functions of State, the Taoiseach has indicated his agreement to the use by your Foundation of George's hall for the February meeting' (16 December 1976) and the organisation of facilities for the meeting.

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