Five hundred copies of all Reports and Invited 
Papers were set aside for the Archives before the 
distribution of the publication at the Congress. 
If available, four hundred copies of all Presented 
Papers were also set aside for the folders of 
Presented Papers. The remaining publications, 
packaged Commission by Commission into plas- 
tic bags, were distributed to all participants. As 
far as possible, the publications arriving later, 
during the Congress, will be distributed directly 
into the participants’ pigeon holes. Publications 
arriving after the Congress will be set in store 
and listed in the Archives or the folders of Pre- 
sented Papers. Altogether, 31 tons of Congress 
Publications have been received and handled. 
5. Simultaneous Interpretation 
The use of three official languages within the 
I.S.P. is a source of considerable economic and 
other difficulties in congress arrangements for 
host countries where none of these languages 
are spoken. This does concern trilingual publica- 
tions; above all, however, providing simultaneous 
interpretation has proved a very heavy economic 
burden. This question will be dealt with in more 
detail later on during this General Assembly. 
6. Technical Sessions 
The Technical Sessions will be held, in accord- 
ance with the Program of the Congress, simul- 
taneously in two lecture halls, the total being 52 
double sessions. It might be observed that items 
related to the techniques of remote sensing will 
be dealt with by various Commissions at about 
twenty, i.e., at 39 % of the double sessions. 
7. Exhibits 
The total number of Exhibitors in the Scientific 
Exhibition and in the Exhibition of National 
Members is 41, 20 of which are in the former and 
21 in the latter. The panels erected provide a 
total of 158 running meters of exhibition space. 
The total area of the Commercial Exhibition is 
2387 m2. In all, there are 44 Commercial Exhibi- 
tors, 27 of which are instrument manufacturers, 
13 firms providing photogrammetric services, 
and 4 manufacturers of materials. 
With the permission of the I.S.P. Council, the Ex- 
hibitors have now, for the first time, been pro- 
vided with a Forum of their own. This is to enable 
them to present to those interested novelties in 
the fields of instrument manufacture and of prac- 
tical applications of both photogrammetry and 
remote sensing more extensively and more ef- 
fectively than at any preceding congress. On the 
basis of requests made by the Exhibitors a total 
of 16 hours for presentations has been reserved 
in the Program for the Exhibitors' Forum. The 
presentations have been so timed that they do 
not compete with Technical Sessions dealing 
with related subjects. 
The Exhibitors’ Party is a joint cocktail party of 
Exhibitors in the Commercial Exhibition to which 
all Congress participants are invited. Twenty-four 
Exhibitors have come forth as hosts, representing 
75% of the total Exhibition space. 
8. International Archives of Photogram- 
metry, Volume XXI 
All Delegates are encouraged to fill in the dis- 
tributed order form for information on the price 
and timetable of Volume XXI of the International 
Archives of Photogrammetry. 
Item 5. Admission of new members and change 
in status of Member Bodies 
Greece, Indonesia and Ireland were admitted as 
full members to the I.S.P. 
No changes concerning the names and categories 
of the Member Bodies had been made. 
The Secretary General observed that the I.S.P. 
should encourage some of the members to up- 
grade their categories. 
Item 6. Members in default of dues 
The Treasurer observed that three countries had 
not paid their contributions since 1969: Papua - 
New Guinea, Peru and Taiwan. The General As- 
sembly approved the Council's recommendation 
to terminate the membership of the said three 
countries. 
Item 7. (10) Cost of simultaneous translation at 
I.S.P. Congresses 
The General Assembly decided to recommend 
that the incoming Council appoint a committee 
to review the situation as far as simultaneous 
translation at I.S.P. Congresses is concerned, in 
order to bring it to a sensible level as to finances. 
It was assumed that the country to host the 1980 
Congress would still provide the same level of 
linguistic services as the Helsinki Congress. 
Two types of questionnaires would be distributed 
at the 1976 Congress to provide the investigators 
with useful information for a comprehensive 
study of the problem of the cost of simultaneous 
interpretation at I.S.P. Congresses. The first one 
would be delivered only to Delegates and would 
concern only simultaneous interpretation. The 
latter again would be a general questionnaire 
distributed to all congressists in the registration 
envelope and concerning all congress arrange- 
ments. 
The Secretary General pointed out that, should 
the majority be interested in English with an 
eventual reduction from three languages to one, 
a special effort is to be made to respect the two 
other languages that are in a minority. 
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