Item 1: Draft agenda of the sixty-ninth meeting of the Bureau. Item 2: B/69/2-Draft minutes of the sixty-eighth meeting of the Bureau, 28 January 1988. Minutes record the discussion on the outline of the 1987 Annual Report (p.1), the 1989 budget (p.2) and the approval of the agenda of the thirty-fifth meeting of the Administrative Board (p.3). 7pp.

B/69/2a-Results of a questionnaire distributed at the international seminar on 'Social dimensions of biotechnology: towards a European policy', 12-13 November 1987, Dublin. Results list the five questions of the survey and the answers received. 10pp. Item 3: Preparation of the Administrative Board meeting of 25 March 1988. No document. Item 4: B/69/4a-Analysis 'as requested by the Chairperson' of the past pattern of career development of existing Foundation staff. Chart shows staff members age, date of recruitment, recruitment grade, promotion dates, years of service in grade of promotion, current grade and length of service in Foundation. Confidential material

B/69/4b-Material relating to the issue of temporary staff within the Foundation. Included is a letter from Clive Purkiss, Director, to G. Pincherle, Staff Regulations Division of the Commission, in which the options for dealing with temporary staff are detailed. Reply letter notes the preferred options of the Staff Regulations Division. Included also is a report from the Union Syndicale, European Foundation Branch, on the issue of temporary staff. Item 5: Signed decision authorising the Director/Deputy Director to sign 'within the framework of the project "Office automation booklet" a contract with PROM Gesellschaft fur Kommunikation und Publikation, Bonn.' English only. Item 6: Item 7: Item 8: Item 9: Item 10: Other: Notes:

English, French

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