1. Opening of the Session
2. Adoption of the Agenda
3. Activities of the Working Parties and Sub-Committee on Nomenclature and Registration of Poplars since the Thirty-eighth Session of the Executive Committee in Hungary in October 1996
4. Proposals for the date and place of the next session of the Executive Committee
5. Development of the International Poplar Commission and its Working Groups
6. Arrangements for the Twenty-first session of the IPC
7. Other matters
