Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Eighty-Third Meeting

Name: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Eighty-Third Meeting
Start: 2022-12-14T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-12-14T16:45:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 14 Dec 2022, 09:00 → 16:45 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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- 09:00 → 09:05
  Adoption of the agenda 5m
  - CERN/FC/6624/Rev.2
  English
  
  French
- 09:05 → 09:15
  Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-eighty-second meeting 10m
  - CERN/FC/6625/RA
  English
  
  French
- 09:15 → 09:20
  
  Matters arising from the previous meeting 5m
- 09:20 → 09:30
  
  Briefing by the President of Council (Oral) 10m
- 09:30 → 09:40
  Financial and budgetary matters for 2022 10m
  - Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6626/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Status of the budget and actual expenses 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6650/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 09:40 → 10:50
  Financial and budgetary matters for 2023 and beyond 1h 10m
  - The cost-variation index for 2023 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6627 CERN/3688
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - Proposed package of measures to mitigate the impact of inflation and electricity prices on CERN’s Budget 45m
    
    CERN/SPC/1194/RA/Rev. CERN/FC/6629/RA/Rev. CERN/3690/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - Final Budget of the Organization for the sixty-ninth financial year 2023 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6628 CERN/3689
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 10:50 → 11:20
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:20 → 11:35
  
  Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) - Report on the meetings held on 20 October and 21 November 2022 (Prof. B. Åsman - Oral) 15m
  
  Slides
  
  TREF Chair's report
- 11:35 → 11:45
  Modifications to the Staff Rules and Regulations concerning the process for approving amendments to the Staff Rules and Regulations 10m
  - CERN/FC/6630 CERN/3692
  English
  
  French
  
  Slides
- 11:45 → 11:50
  Proposed amendments to the 11th Edition of the CERN Staff Rules and Regulations: Editorial changes and Clarification of the articles relating to paternity/co-parent leave (S II 4.03 and R II 4.24) 5m
  - CERN/FC/6631 CERN/3693
  English
  
  French
  
  Slides
- 11:50 → 12:10
  CERN Health Insurance Scheme – Guarantee of health insurance coverage 20m
  - CERN/FC/6632 CERN/3694
  English
  
  French
  
  Slides
- 12:10 → 12:15
  Proposed amendments to the Rules of the CERN Pension Fund related to the Graduate Programme Review 5m
  - CERN/FC/6633 CERN/3695
  English
  
  French
  
  Slides
- 12:15 → 12:35
  TREF Terms of Reference 20m
  - CERN/FC/6634/RA CERN/3696/RA
  English
  
  French
  
  Slides
- 12:35 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 25m
- 14:00 → 14:25
  Pension Fund matters 25m
  - Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Mr O. Malmberg - Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
  - Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
- 14:25 → 14:35
  
  Audit Committee (AC) - Report on the AC meeting held on 15 and 16 November 2022 (Dr U. Dosselli - Oral) 10m
  
  Slides
- 14:35 → 15:15
  Status of accelerators and experiments 40m
  - Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - Status of the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
- 15:15 → 15:45
  
  News about energy (Mr R. Bello - Oral) 30m
  
  Slides
- 15:45 → 16:30
  New contract adjudications 45m
  
  Slides
  - Proposal for the award of three blanket purchase contracts for the supply of CPU servers for physics data processing 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6635/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal for the award of three blanket purchase contracts for the supply of serial-attached SCSI JBOD (external storage array) expansion units 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6636/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of mobile telephony services 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6637/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licences, maintenance and support for a software development platform 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6638/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of maintenance and support for enterprise resource planning software 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6639/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal for the award of a contract for the design and supply of educational physics kits for Italian middle schools 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6640/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of modular power converter systems 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6641/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract for the supply and installation of automatic fire-detection and emergency-evacuation equipment 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6642/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply and maintenance of regulated power supplies for the Phase 2 ATLAS muon spectrometer 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6643/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Request to issue an invitation to tender on a best value-for-money basis for the provision of actuarial services to the CERN Pension Fund 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6644/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract for the braiding of woven mineral insulation around Nb3Sn superconducting cables for the HL-LHC project and for the high-field magnet R&D programme 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6645/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal to negotiate an amendment of an existing contract for the supply of Nb3Sn superconducting wire for the MQXF series quadrupole magnets for the HL-LHC project 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6646/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for the development of high-temperature superconducting accelerator magnets for the high field magnet R&D programme 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6647/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for the development of high-field Nb3Sn accelerator magnets for the high-field magnet R&D programme 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6648/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of tertiary membrane components for the DUNE/LBNF project 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6649/RA
    
    English
    
    French
- 16:30 → 16:35
  Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2024 5m
  - CERN/3698/Rev.
  English French
- 16:35 → 16:45
  
  Other business 10m