In Sydney, August 1973, the IAU Commission 8 adopted a resolution on the elaboration of new international refraction tables. On the basis of this resolution, the Study Group on Astronomical Refraction of the IAU Commission 8 has established a special Working Group. The author, who is the chairman of this Group, gave information on the plans related to this task. The full text of this paper will appear in Trudy 20. Astrometr. Konf. SSSR, Leningrad