Item 1: Draft agenda of the fourth meeting of the Administrative Board. Item 2: Minutes of the third meeting of the Administrative Board, 17 February 1977 (AB/4/2(1)). Minutes are signed by Michel Carpentier, Chairperson of the Administrative Board, and Wiebe de Jong, Director of the Foundation. Covering letter from Carpentier is attached to signed minutes. Annex of participants is included. 25pp. Included also is a file of correspondence from various Board members detailing their comments on the minutes (AB/4/2(2)). A corrigendum to the minutes is included, in which a number of amendments are listed, the Board is asked to approve the minutes so that they can be incorporated into the definitive text of the minutes (AB/4/2(3)). Item 3: Election of Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons. No document. Item 4: First progress report by the Director on the activities of the European Foundation 30 March 1977, which was 'first discussed by the Administrative Board at its third meeting and adopted at its fourth meeting'. Item 5: AB/4/5a-Organisational chart on the basis of the staff table for 1977 in which a hierarchy of staff is presented. Chart was presented to the Board by the Director as an aid to a presentation he gave. AB/4/5b-List of staff names and their place on the organisational chart. AB/4/5c-Clarifications re. organisational chart: Direct and Indirect lines of responsibility, short description of functions and tasks (28 June 1977). Document details the functions of each staff category and their responsibilities. 6pp. Item 6: Transcription of the oral briefing by the Director on the activities of the Foundation since the third meeting in application of the annual working programme for 1977. 10pp. Item 7: Report on the provision of a conference centre at Loughlinstown House (30 May 1977). Report includes headings on Conversion of the swimming pool into a conference centre (p.1), Cost of a separate new conference centre (p.2) and Budgetary consequences of the choices before the Board (p.4). 6pp. An addendum is included in which the 'Budgetary consequences of the choices before the Board' are discussed. 3pp. Item 8: AB/4/8-Verbatim report on the closed session to discuss 'Staff regulation questions-Proposal to change Article 38 (Social Security System)' in which the views of the various Board members are recorded. Document is marked Secret but does not contain confidential information. 28pp. AB/4/8a1- 'Arguments with regard to a necessary alteration of Article 38 of the Foundation's staff regulations of 29 June 1976' in which the issue is discussed under the headings 'Existing Situation' (p.1), ' Objections against the system of article 38' (p.2) and 'Solution' (p.3). 3pp. AB/4/8a2-Memorandum by the services of the Commission concerning the conditions of employment applicable to staff members of the Foundation in Dublin. 15pp. Item 9: Nomination by the Board of two Administrators of Advance Funds of the Foundation. Item 10: Other: File of material, mainly correspondence, concerning the organisation of the fourth meeting of the Board. Topics recorded include venue and facilities, travel and accommodation, invitations and the dispatch of preparatory documents.

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