Early last year the recently-appointed Minister without portfolio for Science Policy Mr Fokele H P Trip, presented a science budget to the Netherlands Parliament. His major concerns were: to bring about an extension of programming and planning science policy to areas of social relevance; to draw more on the scientific community and on research to help clarify national goals, and to bring science into the heart of political organization and the decision-making process. (See Science & Public Policy , Vol 1, No 2, February 1974) By last December, Mr Trip had drawn up concrete proposals on the structural organization of science policy in the country, and submitted them to Parliament in the form of an extensive memorandum. A summary of the first part is given below; the concluding sections will be published next month