Item 1: Draft agenda of the Fourth meeting of the Committee of Experts (CE/4/1(1)) and a timetable for the meetings of the Committee of Experts, Administrative Board and the formal opening of the European Foundation (CE/4/1(2)). Item 2: Minutes of the third (extended) meeting of the Committee of Experts, Holte, 11-13 January 1978. Minutes detail a summary by the Chairperson on the 'actual situation of the Foundation' (p.2), the 'provisional views of Committee members regarding the research situation in their own countries and subjects for future projects in the Foundation's programmes of work' (p.3) and the 'most urgent options of the Foundation in its future research promotion, dissemination of information and policy development roles in the next five years' (p.4). 6pp. Item 3: Rules of procedure of the Committee of Experts. Rules detail the way in which the Committee will be governed including the appointment of Chairperson (p.1), the governing of the Committee of Experts (p.1), the drafting and contents of the Meeting agenda (p.2), participation in the Committee meetings (p.2), the validity of the decisions made in a meeting which 'would only be valid if at least seven members of the Committee participated in the votes to adopt such decisions' (p.3), the voting procedure (p.3), the adoption and notification of decisions (p.3) the recording of minutes of meetings (p.3) and the Secretariat of the Committee (p.4). 4pp. Rules are available in English, French, Danish, German, Italian, and Dutch. Item 4: CE/4/4(1)-Resolution and report to the Administrative Board from the Committee of Experts. Report, February 1978, was worked out after the third Committee meeting, 11-13 January 1978, 'starts with the Resolution which was formulated and adopted at the meeting. Then follows a thorough report with the purpose of clarifying to the Board partly the basis of the statements of the Committee, partly the reasons for the actual proposals which have been put forward, and, finally, our considerations on how to utilise in the most profitable way the competence of the Committee in our cooperation with the Board and the Staff of the Foundation.' Resolution from the Committee calls for the contacts which have already been established with other organs of the Foundation to be extended and take place more often. 22pp. CE/4/4/(2)-Committee paper drawn up during the meeting in which the Committee states that it 'has examined the various programmes that have been adopted ... the Committee underlines once more what it has already expressed in previous reports, namely that in the future a better balance should be achieved between living conditions and working conditions'. Paper calls for contacts to be 'extended and intensified'. 2pp. Item 5: Preparation of the Chairperson's presentation of his address to the Administrative Board (3 October 1978). No document. Item 6: Draft programme of work for 1979. Draft programme details the proposed 1979 activities of the Foundation including 'Activities following on from the research work already done' (p.2), 'New research projects' (p.2), 'Activities planned' (p.3) and General activities (p.7). 10pp. Draft programme was submitted to the Administrative Board as item AB 7/5. Item 7: Item 8: Item 9: Item 10: Other: Material relating to the organisation of the fourth Committee meeting including invitations, reply letters and a letter, 28 April 1978, from Thorkild Herborg Nielsen, Chairperson of the Committee, to Wiebe de Jong, Director of the Foundation, enclosing 'the Expert Committee's Rules of Procedure in Danish with my suggestions for amendments',

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