ocr: TODAY ESA is physically organised into a number of "centres": ESA's Headquarters, located in Paris, is where the Director Gener- al's office and administrative services are situated. The ESA Coun- cil, made up of representatives of the 14 Member States, meets here to decide on matters of policy. The annual budget of ESA is around 2,400 MECU and it has around 1700 permanent interna- tional staff, 350 of whom work in Headquarters. More than 80% of ESA's staff are scientists, engineers or technicians. ESTEC, the European Space Research and lechnology Centre, in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, is the ...
