Item 1: Draft agenda of the twelfth meeting of the Administrative Board. Item 2: Draft minutes (AB/12/2(1)) of the eleventh meeting of the Administrative Board, Dublin 21 March 1980. Minutes detail the 'Annual Report for 1979' (p.4), 'Draft Revenue and Expenditure Account for the Financial Year 1979' (p.5) and 'Further discussion on the next four-year rolling programme 1981-1984' (p.9). A list of persons present at the 11th meeting has been included. 16pp. Included also is an addendum (AB/12/2(2)), a revised draft budget for 1981 (see AB/11/6) as requested by the Trade Union Group, and considered in conjunction with the 11th Board minutes. 36pp. Item 3: Ninth progress report by the Director on the activities of the European Foundation covering the period March-July 1980. Report, from Wiebe de Jong 10 June 1980, includes an 'Evaluation of activities regarding 1978 studies' (p.1), a 'State of implementation of research promotion activities under the 1980 programme of work' (p.4) and 'Dissemination and information activities' (p.6). 7pp. Item 4: Draft and revised draft rolling programme of the European Foundation for 1981-1984. Programme includes 'Background and context of the Programme' (p.1), 'Priority Subjects' (p.3) and 'Conceptualization' (p.9). 9pp. Item 5: Discussion on guidelines for the annual programme of work for 1981. No document. Item 6: Statement by the Chairperson on the amendment of the Foundation's Staff Regulations. No document. Item 7: Election of Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons for 1980-1981. No document.. Item 8: Report on the 'Pricing policy for Foundation' s publications'. Report states that 'up to the present all of the 1977 Reports have been distributed free of charge to a list of recipients' (p.1) but 'The question, however, arises as to whether ... the current free distribution list is adequate and what guidelines might be established for extending or developing it.' (p.2). The Director considers this a matter for the Board and asks their advice on the subject with a request for an early decision. 3pp. Item 9: AB/12/9a-Signed ratification of the decision made by the Bureau to renew the contract of the Foundation gardener for a further year. AB/12/9b-Signed decision authorising the continuance of the temporary mortality and invalidity insurance cover as approved by the Board, 3 March 1978, until 1 July 1980. AB/12/9c-Request by the Director for the Board to authorise the Foundation to effect the transfer of the total net salary for June 1979 ... in accordance with the Rules as expressed in Administrative Notice 237 of 11 May 1979. Request is not signed. AB/12/9d-Signed decision making a number of adjustments to the Draft Budget for 1980 'to bring it in line with the subsidy expected to be granted by the Budgetary Authority' (p.2). Copy of the 1980 Budget is attached to the decision. Item 10: Other: File of material, mainly correspondence, relating to the twelfth meeting of the Administrative Board. Included an invitation that includes a coach schedule for Bureau members and Group members. Included also is a copy of the 'European Parliament Working Documents 1979-1980; Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control. (English and French version).

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