Official issues: draft agenda, lists of participants, draft minutes, five resolutions, implementing rules.
Relevant subjects: report by the Director General on events since the 167th meeting; draft Resolution on the Accounts for financial year 2002; draft Resolution on 2004 budgets for the mandatory activities and budgets associated with the General Budget; report on new launcher programmes: subscriptions to the EGAS Ariane, Soyuz at the CSG and FLPP programmes; human spaceflights programmes: consequences of the Shuttle's delayed return to flight; enhancement of industrial and procurement policy; replacement of a member of the Audit Commission; implementing rules for P80 solid propulsion stage demonstrator programme; implementing rules for small launcher developing programme; international relations activities for 2004 - report on 2003 activities; status report on GalileoSat programme; status report on the digital divide initiative; FLPP Declaration; approval of legal instruments pertaining to new launcher programmes: implementing rules for EGAS Ariane programme; implementing rules for Soyuz at the CSG programme; implementing rules for the FLPP; revised ESA/Arianespace Convention on the Ariane launcher production phase; Resolution on the Agency's mandate for the current Ariane launcher production phase and the evolution towards an overall coherent strategy in the European launcher sector; ESA/Rosaviakosmos Agreement on long-term partnership and cooperation in the area of launchers; ESA/France Agreement on Soyuz at the CSG; Resolution concerning modification of the figure shown for costs in the Resolution on the CSG; Resolution on the Accounts for the financial year 2002; Resolution on 2004 budgets for the mandatory activities and budgets associated with the General Budget; Resolution setting-up a Council working group on the evolution of the Agency's financial, budgetary and industrial policies.

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