Item 1: Draft agenda of the sixth meeting of the Administrative Board. Item 2: Draft minutes and signed minutes of the fifth Board meeting, 15 November 1977. English version of the minutes have been signed by Jean Degimbe, Chairperson and Wiebe de Jong, Director. Signed list of participants is attached. Item 3: Third progress report of the Director on the activities of the Foundation, covering the period November 1977-February 1978 . Item 4: Draft budget of the European Foundation for 1979. A number of annexes are attached including an Authorised Staff Table and Statement giving the reasons for requesting new posts. 18pp. Item 5: Initial consideration of the 1979 work programme, in which Wiebe de Jong, Director, outlines preliminary ideas for the 1979 programme, to be discussed and approved at the seventh Board meeting. Item 6: Communication from the Committee of Experts, originally called the Holte Report. At its third meeting in Holte, Copenhagen (January 1978) the Committee expressed the wish that 'contacts with other Foundation bodies (Board and Directorate) should be further explored and become more frequent' and that the Committee should 'receive regularly any information which would make its work more efficient'. Includes recommendations for the work programme. Item 7: Results of a meeting on the Foundation's future information policy. Reports show the proposals formulated at a special meeting of the Foundation (Rome 26-27 January 1978) to map out its policy in the sphere of information, documentation and public relations. Item 8: Accounts for 1977 and Balance sheet at 31 December 1977 (AB/6/8(1)). Included also is a statement of revenue and expenditure for 1977 (AB/6/8(2)). Item 9: AB/6/9a-Signed decision overruling the Financial Control's refusal to authorise the continuance of temporary mortality and invalidity insurance for staff members. AB/6/9b-List of amendments, at the request of the Financial Control, to be made to AB/6/9b1 and AB/6/9b2 (see below). AB/6/9b1-Signed decision concerning the reimbursement of the travel, subsistence and miscellaneous expenses of the Administrative Board. AB/6/9b2-Signed decision concerning the reimbursement of the travel, subsistence and miscellaneous expenses of experts from outside the Foundation invited to meetings. AB/6/9/c-Ratification of the decisions taken by the Bureau, on its behalf, since the Board meeting of 16 November 1977. AB/6/9d-Decision requesting that the European Commission transfer funds from Chapter 3 to Chapter 2 for Foundation's Reproduction Equipment. AB/6/9e-Date and provisional scheme of next meeting. AB/6/9f-List of public holidays for 1978. Item 10: Other: File of material, mainly correspondence, relating to the organisation of the sixth Board meeting. Topics recorded include venue and facilities, dates, accommodation and preparatory documents. Included also is the draft agenda for the sixth meeting in various languages including Danish, Dutch, German and Italian. (located in EF/AB/6/corresp en). Notes:

English, French