The ESO Slice Project (ESP) is a galaxy redshift survey we are accomplishing as an ESO Key-Project over about 30 square degrees, in a region near the South Galactic Pole. The limiting magnitude is bJ=19.4. Observations were completed in October 1994 and all the obtained data were reduced, providing 3348 galaxy redshifts. We present some preliminary results concerning the large scale galaxy distribution and the luminosity function. © 1997 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) Amsterdam B.V. Published under license under the Gordon and Breach Science Publishers imprint.