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The joint briefing will begin at eleven. Each organisation should send one confirmed contact name by nine thirty. Please send corrections to the coordination office, not to the full distribution list. If your organisation cannot meet the deadline, tell the office which information is missing and when you expect to confirm it.

We are introducing a single contact list because the last exercise showed how easily an outdated address could delay a response. Several organisations sent useful information, but the coordination office could not establish which version was final. The new list will identify one operational contact and one replacement for each organisation. It will also show when each entry was last confirmed. Please distinguish an acknowledgement from a substantive answer. A short reply saying that a request has been received is useful, but it does not mean that the requested action has been completed. If your contact can only acknowledge the message, say when a fuller response is expected. During the briefing, the chair will summarise points that require a joint decision and separate them from matters that belong to an individual organisation. Participants should correct any misunderstanding before the meeting ends. We want a clear record of agreement, including any remaining reservations. Silence will not automatically be treated as approval. After the meeting, a short action list will be circulated for confirmation by the named contacts.