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

Name: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Ninety-Seventh Meeting
Start: 2025-06-18T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 18 Jun 2025, 09:00 → 18:00 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
    
    CERN/FC/6905
    
    English
  - 2
    Approval of the draft minutes of the
    
    a) three-hundred-and-ninety-fifth meeting
    
    CERN/FC/6906/RA/Draft
    
    English
    
    French
    
    b) three-hundred-and-ninety-sixth meeting
    
    CERN/FC/6907/RA/Draft
  - 3
    
    Matters arising from the previous meeting
  - 4
    
    Briefing by the President of Council (Oral)
  - 5
    CERN Annual Progress Report 2024 (Dr F. Sonnemann)
    
    CERN/SPC/1252/Rev. CERN/FC/6883/Rev. CERN/3886/Rev.
  - 6
    CERN finances 2024
    
    a) Financial Statements for 2024 (Dr F. Sonnemann)
    
    CERN/FC/6899 CERN/3904
    
    b) Opinion and report from the External Auditors on the Financial Statements of CERN for the year ended 31 December 2024
    
    CERN/FC/6900 CERN/3905
  - 7
    Pension Fund finances 2024
    
    a) Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2024 (Mr D. Heron)
    
    CERN/FC/6901 CERN/3906
    
    b) Opinion and Report from the External Auditors on the Financial Statements of the Pension Fund for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 and Comments from the Pension Fund Management
    
    CERN/FC/6902 CERN/3907
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee break
  - 8
    Financial and budgetary matters for 2025 and beyond
    
    a) Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States and Status of 2025 budget and actual expenses (Mr R. Bello)
    
    CERN/FC/6908/RA
    
    b) Key messages from the Finance Committee on the Medium-Term Plan for the period 2026-2030
    
    CERN/FC/6909/RA
    
    c) Medium-Term Plan for the period 2026-2030 and Draft Budget of the Organization for the Seventy-Second Financial Year 2026 (Mr R. Bello)
    
    CERN/SPC/1255/Rev. CERN/FC/6904/Rev. CERN/3910
    
    d) Preliminary information on the Cost-Variation Index for 2026 (Dr F. Sonnemann)
    
    CERN/FC/6910/RA
    
    e) 2026 Scale of Contributions by the Member and Associate Member States (Dr F. Sonnemann)
    
    CERN/FC/6911 CERN/3911
  - 12:35
    
    Lunch
  - 9
    Audit Committee (AC)
    
    a) Report on the AC meeting held on 3 and 4 June 2025 (Professor J. Schieck - Oral)
    
    b) Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee
  - 10
    
    Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) - Report on the meeting held on 14 May 2025 (Ms S. Verth - Oral)
  - 11
    Pension Fund matters
    
    a) Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Dr F. Buzatu - Oral)
    
    b) 2025 Periodic Actuarial Review (AON)
    
    CERN/FC/6912/RA CERN/3914/RA
    
    c) Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral)
- 15:25
  
  Coffee break
- - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
  - 12
    Recommendations from the Working group on the Rights and Obligations of Council Office Holders (Dr U. Dosselli)
    
    CERN/SPC/1260/RA CERN/FC/6870/RA/Rev. CERN/3876/C/Rev.
  - 13
    Associate Member States: possible measures in the event of contribution arrears (Ms C. Warakaulle)
    
    CERN/FC/6886/RA/Rev. CERN/3895/C/Rev.
  - 14
    Reappointment of the FC Vice-Chair
    
    CERN/FC/6913/RA
- - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  - 15
    Status of accelerators and experiments
    
    a) Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral)
    
    b) Status of the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich)
  - 16
    
    New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley)
  - 17
    Overview of current service contracts (Mr C. Hartley)
    
    CERN/6914/RA
  - 18
    
    Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda
  - 19
    
    Other business