Item 1: Draft agenda of the fourteenth meeting of the Administrative Board. Item 2: Draft minutes of the thirteenth meeting of the Administrative Board, 18 November 1980. Minutes detail the Final approval of the 1981-1984 Rolling Programme (p.3) and a Discussion and approval of the draft programme of work for 1981 (p.3). A list of participants present at the meeting and a list of decisions taken by the Board at its 13th meeting are annexed. 13pp. Attached is a list of amendments to the minutes of the 13th meeting, as requested by the Chairperson. 4pp. Item 3: Eleventh Progress report of the Director on the activities of the European Foundation covering the period November 1980-March 1981. Report, dated 23 February 1981, details the progress of the Foundation under headings including Finalisation of the 1979 research promotion activities (p.1) and Implementation of the 1981 programme of work (p.2) 2pp. Item 4: Draft work programme for 1981 'the fifth annual programme of the Foundation and the first one under the four-year rolling programme 1981-84' (AB/14/4(1)). Programme is divided under headings including Dissemination and Documentation (p.2), The Improvement of Working Conditions (p.4) and The Improvement of Living Conditions (p.14). 16pp. Also included is a document Progress in the Implementation of Work Programme for 1981 (marked for restricted circulation)'. (AB/14/4(2)). 17pp. Item 5: Fifth annual report on the activities of the European Foundation (AB/14/5(1)). Report deals with the Foundation's activities during 1980 and has headings including Staff Developments (p.3), Work Programmes for 1980 and 1981 (p.4) and Budgetary Developments: Appropriations and Results (p.14). Ten annexes are attached including Organisational Structure 1981 (p. 21), the Rolling Programme of the European Foundation 1981-1984 (p.27), and a chart detailing Dissemination during the period November 1979-June 1981 (p.53). 55pp. Included also is an addendum that lists proposed changes to the fifth Annual Report (AB/14/5(2)). 3pp. Item 6: Draft accounts for 1980 including a balance sheet at 31 December 1980. Accounts are preceded by a four page introduction including an Analysis of the Financial Management of the European Foundation ... in respect of the Financial Year 1980 (p.1) and Administrative Expenditure (p.3). 27pp. Item 7: Draft budget for 1982. Budget is preceded by a twelve page general introduction detailing an outline of the policy justifying the request for the appropriations (p.2), and an Explanation of the changes in appropriations between 1981 and 1982 (p.8). A number of annexes are attached including an Authorised staff table for 1981 (p.34) and Quarterly estimate of cash receipts and payments (p.35). 35pp. Item 8: Statement by the Chairperson on the Foundation's staff regulations. No document. Item 9: AB/14/9a1-Signed decision concerning the reimbursement of travel, subsistence and miscellaneous expenses of members of the Board and the Committee of Experts. Included also is a correction, made at the request of the Director General of Budgets of the European Commission. 3pp. AB/14/9a2-Signed decision raising the travel, subsistence and miscellaneous expenses of members of the Board. Included also is a correction, made at the request of the Director General of Budgets of the European Commission. 3pp. AB/14/9b-Signed decision increasing the daily rental of the Foundation's Conference Centre. 2pp. AB/14/9c-Signed ratification of the decision made by the Bureau since the Board meeting of 18 November 1980. AB/14/9d-Signed approval by the Board of the holiday list for 1981, list is annexed. 2pp. AB/14/9e-Signed decision 'to amend the existing contracts of all local agents serving with the Foundation to provide a normal working week of 37.5 hours instead of 40 hours'. 4pp. AB/14/9f-Signed decision awarding the contract for the modification of the Foundation's conference room to Messrs. Matthew Wallace Ltd. Item 10: Signed decision regarding the basic monthly salaries of Foundation staff. 5pp. other: English and French copy of the invitation issued to the Board members.

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