Item 1: Draft agenda of the 33rd meeting of the Administrative Board. Included also is an annotated draft agenda (AB/33/1a). Annotated agenda states that 'At the March 1987 meeting of the Administrative Board it was proposed that an annotated agenda be sent to members. The purpose is to indicate the principal items for discussion, in advance of the full papers becoming available'. Item 2: Draft minutes of the 32nd meeting of the Administrative Board, 27 March 1987. Minutes detail the progress report of the Director (p.2), the presentation of the annual report for 1986 which was accordingly adopted (p.3) and the draft budget for 1988 (p.4). A list of persons present at the 32nd Board meeting is annexed. 9pp. Item 3: Thirtieth progress report by the Director on the activities of the European Foundation, covering the period March 1987-June 1987. Report details the activities of the Foundation including an 'Overview; The 1987 work programme is progressing with no substantial problems. Research projects are in general on schedule ... The Commission has withdrawn its proposed amendments to the founding regulation of the Foundation and the debate in Parliament on the report by Mr. Dido has been concluded.' (p.1), 'External Relations' (p.1), 'The Programme of Work' (p.2), 'Organisation' (p.3) and 'Staff' (p.3). 4pp. A number of annexes are attached including 'New Research Commitments' (annex 2), 'Conferences, Workshops etc.' (annex 4) and a 'List of participants involved in European Foundation Meetings April-June 1987' (annex 6a). An addendum 'Information note-Computer systems' is also included. 4pp. Item 4: Outline of the 1988 programme of work. Proposed work programme contains four parts; 1. Introduction, 2. A table outlining the implementation of the various projects with reference to previous activities, 3. List of activities and 4. Estimated costs for the different projects. 12pp. Item 5: Preparation of the four-year rolling programme 1989-1992. After discussion in the Bureau meeting of 18 May 1987 a number of guidelines are proposed for the preparation of the Foundation's 1989-1992 four-year rolling programme. Included is 'Method of Preparation' (p.1), 'Form and Content of the Programme' (p.1) and a timetable (p.3). Proposals include a wider target audience and themes 'possibly built around social questions relating to the development of the internal market. There is need for coherence in the programme, for one leading theme and five or six sub-themes set within a framework.' (p.3). 3pp. Item 6: AB/33/6a-Signed ratification of the decisions taken by the Bureau since the Board meeting of 27 March 1987. AB/33/6b and AB/33/6b revised-Signed decision to transfer funds within the Foundation's 1987 budget. Item 7: AB/33/7a-Proposed changes to the evaluation procedure for the evaluation of research projects. Detailed are the 'Objectives of the evaluation procedure' which includes 'to verify the soundness of the research and the report ... to provide an opportunity for the representatives of the Groups on the Administrative Board to express their opinion' (p.1) and 'Implementation' (p.1). The ways of evaluating the different types of reports are laid out including consolidated reports, national reports and other individual reports. 4pp.
AB/33/7b-Schedule of meetings for 1987. 5pp. AB/33/7c-Signed decision that the Director/Deputy Director is empowered to sign, within the framework of the project 'European Labour and Industrial relations-Phase 1' a contract with Prof. T. Treu-Fondazione Seveso. AB/33/7d-Tentative list of participants for the seminar on 'Social dimensions of biotechnology-Towards a European policy' held in Dublin 12-13 November 1987. 4pp. Other: English and French copy of the invitation issued to Board members. Included also is the text of a letter sent by the Secretary General of the European Parliament to Clive Purkiss, Director of the European Foundation, stating that the Parliament 'adopted, on the basis of a report by its Committee on Social Affairs and Employment, a resolution on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council for a Regulation amending Regulation No. 1365/75 on the creation of a European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working conditions.' The resolution adopted is attached to the letter. Resolution considers that 'the amendments proposed by the Commission would have adverse effects on the functioning and efficiency of the Foundation ... that the regulations creating the Foundation in Dublin and the Centre in Berlin should be amended at the same time ... stresses the importance of close cooperation between the European Parliament and the Foundation and reiterated the request that a delegation of members of the European Parliament should attend meetings of the Administrative Board'. English and French copies.