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

Name: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Ninety-Fourth Meeting
Start: 2024-12-11T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-11T16:10:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 11 Dec 2024, 09:00 → 16:10 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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- 09:00 → 12:35
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  
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  - 09:00
    Adoption of the agenda 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6863/Rev.2
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:05
    Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-ninety-third meeting 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6864/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:10
    
    Matters arising from the previous meeting 10m
  - 09:20
    
    Briefing by the President of Council (Oral) 10m
  - 09:30
    Financial and budgetary matters 55m
    
    Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States and Status of 2024 budget and actual expenses (Mr R. Bello) 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6865/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    The Cost-Variation Index for 2025 (Dr F. Sonnemann) 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6866 CERN/3861
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Budget of the Organization for the seventy-first financial year 2025 (Dr F. Sonnemann) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6867 CERN/3862
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Considerations on CERN’s financial situation (Mr R. Bello - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 10:25
    
    Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) - Report on the meeting held on 14 November 2024 (Ms S. Verth - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
    
    TREF Chair's report to FC December 2024
  - 10:40
    CERN’s revised graduate programme – a review (Mr J. Purvis) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6868 CERN/3864
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 11:00
    
    - - - COFFEE BREAK - - - 20m
  - 11:20
    Audit Committee (AC) (Professor J. Schieck) 15m
    
    Report on the AC meeting held on 18 and 19 November 2024 (Oral) 14m
    
    Slides
    
    Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee 1m
  - 11:35
    Pension Fund matters 1h
    
    Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Dr F. Buzatu - Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
    
    Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
    
    Technical amendments to Chapter I of the Rules of the CERN Pension Fund 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6880 CERN/3881
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Report of the Pension Fund Governing Board on the Definition of Full Funding (Mr D. Heron) 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6869/RA CERN/3860/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  - - - LUNCH - - - 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 14:30
  - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
  - 14:00
    Working group on the Rights and Obligations of Council Office Holders – Draft recommendations (Dr U. Dosselli) 30m
    
    CERN/FC/6870/RA CERN/3876/C
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 14:30 → 16:10
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  - 14:30
    Status of accelerators and experiments 50m
    
    SPC Interventions to Item 11 Slides
    
    Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Meddahi - Oral) 25m
    
    Slides
    
    Status of the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich) 25m
    
    Slides
  - 15:20
    New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley) 40m
    
    Slides
    
    Proposal for the negotiation of an extension of an existing contract for the use of a high-bandwidth network between CERN and Amsterdam 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6871/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licences, maintenance and support for a learning management system 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6872/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for the development of Nb3Sn and HTS high-field dipole magnets 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6873/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the assembly of the warm structures for two LBNF/DUNE detector cryostats 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6874/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to amend the existing contract for the supply of electricity to cover the updated accelerator schedule for 2026 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6875/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of reception services and administrative and technical support services on the CERN site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6876/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of transport services for the CERN community 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6877/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the rennovation of sanitary blocks on the CERN site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6878/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6879/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 16:00
    Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2026 3m
    
    CERN/3869/Draft
    
    English
  - 16:03
    
    Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda 2m
  - 16:05
    
    Other business 5m