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Council - Hundred-and-sixty-second Session
CERN ( Room Georges Charpak (Room F) ) Thursday, 15 March 2012 - 09:30



Thursday, 15 March 2012

Documents


Restricted Session ( CERN ( Room Georges Charpak (Room F) ) )

1. Report to the Credentials Committee
2. Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Hundred-and-Sixty-First Session of Council Restricted and Closed Sessions
CERN/3002/RA/Draft
English
French
3. Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Hundred-and-Sixty-First Session of Council Open Session
CERN/3003/Draft
English
French
4. Adoption of the Agenda
CERN/3004
CERN/3004/Rev.
English
French
5. Matters arising from previous meeting
6. President’s Report
Letter
7. Director-General’s Report
8. Member State Matters
   8.1 General report on Member State matters (Director-General – Oral)
   8.2 Developments in the Member States relevant for CERN
9. Non-Member State Matters
   9.1 General report on non-Member State matters (Director-General – Oral)
10. LHC Progress Report
   10.1 Report on the outcome of the LHC performance workshop, Chamonix, 6-10 February 2012
Slides
   10.2 Status report on the LHC Machine
Slides
   10.3 Status report on LHC Experiments and Computing
Slides
11. Report by the Chairman of the Finance Committee (Dr B. Jacobsen – Oral)
12. Annual Progress Report for 2011
CERN/SPC/985
CERN/FC/5606
CERN/3005
English
French
Slides
13. Pension Fund
   13.1 - Report by the Chairman of the Governing Board (Prof. D.O. Riska – Oral)
   13.2 Financial Regulations of the Pension Fund
White Paper
   13.3 Proposal by the Management concerning adjustment of the total contribution rate for new members of the CERN Pension Fund within the framework of the package of measures adopted in 2010 and 2011
CERN/FC/5612
CERN/3010
English
French
Slides
14. Information on the Medium-Term Plan for the Period 2013-2017 (Director-General – Oral)
Slides
15. Report by the Chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee
16. Questions from the Council to the SPC
   16.1 New questions from the delegations
17. Confirmation of the access status of the documents of the session
18. Status of the European Strategy Update (Prof. T. Nakada – Oral)
Slides
19. Other Business
--- Lunch ---

Closed Session ( CERN ( Room Georges Charpak (Room F) ) )

1. Report on Applicant States
   1.1 Update on the three remaining applications for Membership and on expressions of interest by other non-Member States (Director-General – Oral)
   1.2 Possible mechanism to avoid politicization of the accession process in respect of the five Applicant States
CERN/3008/RA
(Confidential)
English
French
   1.3 Application for Associate Membership at CERN by the Government of Ukraine and appointment of a fact-finding Task Force (Director-General – Oral)
Document (letter+file)
   1.4 Harmonization of Romania’s entitlements with those of Associate States in the pre-stage to Membership at CERN
CERN/3009/RA
(Confidential)
English
French
2. Procedure for Selecting and Appointing the Director-General of CERN
CERN/2329/Rev.2
English
French
   2.1 Next steps
CVs Candidates External Members Search Committee
Letter
document
3. European Strategy Matters
   3.1 Examination of proposals to hosting: Strategy Group Drafting Session, 21-26 January 2013
Slides
4. Standing Advisory Committee on Audits (SACA)
   4.1 SACA recommendation to Council regarding the selection of the next External Auditors (Prof. M. Spiro – Oral)
   4.2 Call for nominations of two new members
CERN/2883
English
French
   4.3 New questions from delegations to SACA
5. Elections
   5.1 Call for nominations for the next President of Council
   5.2 Election of the Vice-Chairman of TREF
document
6. Appointments of SPC Members
   6.1 Preliminary Discussion on future SPC membership
CERN/SPC/313/Rev.6
CERN/2812
English
French
7. Pension Fund
   7.1 Re-appointment of the Chief Executive Officer of the CERN Pension Fund
CERN/3007/RA
(Confidential)
English
French