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The Participants invite the Council of the Agency to agree that for the purposes of this Declaration, the Ariane Launcher Programme Board, set up under Article IV of the Ariane Arrangement, shall be entrusted with the following functions:
a) it shall examine and recommend to the Participants the arrangements for the funding of the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), referred to in section I.8;
b) it shall regularly receive reports on the world launch services market so as to provide it with the assistance it needs in order to carry out its remit and give opinions as appropriate;
c) it shall examine, on a regular basis, the geographical distribution of industrial work related to production among the Participants and shall be consulted if a Participant objects to changes, as mentioned in section III.3, made by Arianespace in this distribution, so that it may make a recommendation. It shall be for the Participant concerned to refer the subject of its objection to the Ariane Launcher Programme Board;
d) it shall hear and examine a detailed annual report presented by the Chairman of Arianespace on the company's activities. On that occasion it may make any recommendation to Arianespace that it considers useful for attaining the objectives of this Declaration. It may request Arianespace to supply it with further reports, which Arianespace shall supply, subject, where applicable, to their strict confidentiality;
e) it shall be kept informed at each meeting of Arianespace's activities by the Director General of the Agency or his representative, such information including, where applicable, any development in the structure and/or the composition of the shareholdings of the Arianespace group;
f) it shall receive an annual report from the Chairman of the Sales Control Committee.
Only the Participants in this Declaration shall have the right to vote on matters concerning its implementation. Decisions or recommendations made by them in this capacity within the Ariane Launcher Programme Board shall be adopted by a simple majority.
The reports and information referred to above may be confidential, and the Participants and the Agency undertake to treat them as such.
For that purpose, the Ariane Launcher Programme Board may meet in restricted session, in which case only the Participants in this Declaration shall be represented.