1. Welcome, apologies and declarations of interest
2. Adoption of the draft agenda
3. Adoption of the draft minutes of the meeting of 4 December 2000
4. Activity program of Directorate SANCO G: presentation by the Director Mr. F. Sauer
5. Working Program of IPTS for 2001: information given by Dr. S. Sørup
6. Feed-back by the Chairman on subjects discussed in the SSC which are of interest to the Committee
7. Feed-back by members of the Committee having attented working group meetings of other Scientific Committees
8. Discussion of the preliminary draft report on 'Blood and vCJD'
9. Information on the work of the 'Tissue Engineering' working group (Prof. Williams)
10. Information of the work of the 'Xenotransplantation' working group (Dr. De Jong)
11. Miscellaneous