The revised and annotated draft agenda was adopted as follows:
・ agenda item 7 - Exception Report of SC10, this item will not be further discussed, because it has already done in TC8 plenary
・ agenda item 9 - items requested and referred to the TC8 plenary, SC4 issue, review of the Business plan and so on, should be included in the agenda. The Business Plan should be permanently assigned on every AG meeting draft agenda.
・ agenda item 5 - following up (how we are progressing the past report) of last AG report should be permanently assigned as the item of every AG meeting and TC8 Plenary meeting in terms of continuity.
3. ROLL CALL OF PARTICIPANTS
・ 8 AG N 527 (R3) Preliminary list of the participants
The meeting was attended by 16 participants, from 9 countries (Denmark, Japan, Korea Rep of, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, and USA). The attendance list is annexed to this report.
Apologies have been received from Mr. Schade (Germany), Prof. Hengst (Netherlands), Mr. Crudu (Romania) and Mr. Brookes (UK).
4. APPOINTMENT OF EDITING COMMITTEE
The Chairman appointed Mr. Hime, USA, Mr. Van Dijk, Denmark, and Mr. Ogo to the Editing Committee in case any recommendations and Resolutions have to be drafted.
5. REPORT 28th MEETING, GALATI, 1999-05-4/5
・ 8 AG N 525 Report 28th meeting
The report of the last meeting was provided and following up was done as follows. Item 2 of the Galati Report. Review of the Business Plan
It was agreed that in order to review the Business plan, an adhoc group is formed in the TC8 Plenary in Tokyo and the item of 'Review of the Business Plan' in the draft agenda of AG should be a permanent item of TC8/AG meeting.
・ Template (format) of the Business Plan
Regarding the template of the Business Plan turned out by ISO/TMB, the Chairman expressed that the TC8 has already established its own Business Plan and its format Which is most reasonable, understandable and available, with relation to both Industry, the, commercial market sector and IMO before ISO/TMB turned out their format for the Business Plan recently. The template turned out by ISO/TMB requires substantial changes.
Therefore, TC8/AG decided that TC8 should preserve the present TC8 Business Plan and its format for a successful TC8 Program management; however, the Plan will be reviewed by the adhoc group to insure that the key topics required by the ISO TMB are adequately presented.
Mr. Van Dijk expressed that the ISO template of the Business Plan is not the priority. It is only a guidance of the Business Plan. The Chairman agreed with Mr. Van Dijk.
