Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Ninety-Fourth Meeting

Europe/Zurich
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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    • - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
      • 1
        Adoption of the agenda
      • 2
        Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-ninety-third meeting
      • 3
        Matters arising from the previous meeting
      • 4
        Briefing by the President of Council (Oral)
      • 5
        Financial and budgetary matters
        • a) Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States and Status of 2024 budget and actual expenses (Mr R. Bello)
        • b) The Cost-Variation Index for 2025 (Dr F. Sonnemann)
        • c) Budget of the Organization for the seventy-first financial year 2025 (Dr F. Sonnemann)
        • d) Considerations on CERN’s financial situation (Mr R. Bello - Oral)
      • 6
        Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) - Report on the meeting held on 14 November 2024 (Ms S. Verth - Oral)
      • 7
        CERN’s revised graduate programme – a review (Mr J. Purvis)
      • 11:00 AM
        - - - COFFEE BREAK - - -
      • 8
        Audit Committee (AC) (Professor J. Schieck)
        • a) Report on the AC meeting held on 18 and 19 November 2024 (Oral)
        • b) Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee
      • 9
        Pension Fund matters
        • a) Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Dr F. Buzatu - Oral)
        • b) Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral)
        • c) Technical amendments to Chapter I of the Rules of the CERN Pension Fund
        • d) Report of the Pension Fund Governing Board on the Definition of Full Funding (Mr D. Heron)
    • 12:30 PM
      - - - LUNCH - - -
    • - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
      • 10
        Working group on the Rights and Obligations of Council Office Holders – Draft recommendations (Dr U. Dosselli)
    • - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
      • 11
        Status of accelerators and experiments
        • a) Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Meddahi - Oral)
        • b) Status of the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich)
      • 12
        New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley)
        • a) Proposal for the negotiation of an extension of an existing contract for the use of a high-bandwidth network between CERN and Amsterdam
        • b) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licences, maintenance and support for a learning management system
        • c) Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for the development of Nb3Sn and HTS high-field dipole magnets
        • d) Proposal for the award of a contract for the assembly of the warm structures for two LBNF/DUNE detector cryostats
        • e) Proposal to amend the existing contract for the supply of electricity to cover the updated accelerator schedule for 2026
        • f) Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of reception services and administrative and technical support services on the CERN site
        • g) Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of transport services for the CERN community
        • h) Proposal for the award of a contract for the rennovation of sanitary blocks on the CERN site
        • i) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply, installation and commissioning of heating, ventilation and electrical equipment needed for a new centralised heating plant on the Swiss part of CERN's Meyrin site
      • 13
        Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2026
      • 14
        Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda
      • 15
        Other business