Official issues: draft agendas, list of participants, draft minutes, two resolutions.
Relevant subjects: report by the Director General on events since the 172nd meeting; draft resolution on the annual accounts 2003; draft resolution on the 2005 budgets for mandatory activities and budgets associated with general budget; adoption of the 2005 budgets for the optional programmes; arrangements related to the decisions of Arianespace which may have an impact on the EGAS programme objectives; draft arrangement between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency on long term cooperation and partnership in the field of launchers; replacement of a member of the Audit Commission; report on and lessons learnt from the first meeting of the "Space Council" and its preparation; status report on the scientific programme; status report on Galileo; status of GMES and the Global Observation Initiative; communication activities 2005.
Resolution on the accounts for the financial year 2003; Resolution on the 2005 budgets for mandatory activities and budgets associated with general budget.

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