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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- 09:00 → 15:20
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  
  Zoom link - Normal session
  - 09:00
    Adoption of the agenda 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6905/Rev.2
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:05
    Approval of the draft minutes of the 5m
    
    three-hundred-and-ninety-fifth meeting 3m
    
    CERN/FC/6906/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    three-hundred-and-ninety-sixth meeting 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6907/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:10
    
    Matters arising from the previous meeting 10m
    
    Document for information - KPI's reflections relating to Personnel Returns
  - 09:20
    
    Briefing by the President of Council (Oral) 5m
    
    Slides
  - 09:25
    CERN Annual Progress Report 2024 (Ms K. Pokorska) 20m
    
    CERN/SPC/1252/Rev. CERN/FC/6883/Rev. CERN/3886/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    SPC Intervention FC June 2025 (APR)
  - 09:45
    CERN finances 2024 30m
    
    Financial Statements for 2024 (Ms J. Robinson) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6899 CERN/3904
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Opinion and report from the External Auditors on the Financial Statements of CERN for the year ended 31 December 2024 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6900 CERN/3905
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    Pension Fund finances 2024 30m
    
    Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2024 (Mr D. Heron) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6901 CERN/3906
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    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 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6902 CERN/3907
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee break 20m
  - 11:05
    Financial and budgetary matters for 2025 and beyond 1h 25m
    
    Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States and Status of 2025 budget and actual expenses (Mr R. Bello) 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6908/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Key messages from the Finance Committee on the Medium-Term Plan for the period 2026-2030 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6909/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Medium-Term Plan for the period 2026-2030 and Draft Budget of the Organization for the Seventy-Second Financial Year 2026 (Mr R. Bello) 45m
    
    CERN/SPC/1255/Rev. CERN/FC/6904/Rev. CERN/3910
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    SPC Intervention FC June 2025 (MTP)
    
    Preliminary information on the Cost-Variation Index for 2026 (Ms K. Pokorska) 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6910/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    2026 Scale of Contributions by the Member and Associate Member States (Ms K. Pokorska) 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6911 CERN/3911
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 12:30
    
    Lunch 1h 20m
  - 13:50
    Audit Committee (AC) 10m
    
    Report on the AC meeting held on 3 and 4 June 2025 (Professor J. Schieck - Oral) 9m
    
    Slides
    
    Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee 1m
  - 14:00
    
    Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) - Report on the meeting held on 14 May 2025 (Ms S. Verth - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
    
    TREF Chair's report to FC June 2025
  - 14:15
    Pension Fund matters 1h 5m
    
    Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Dr F. Buzatu - Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
    
    2025 Periodic Actuarial Review (AON) 40m
    
    CERN/FC/6912/RA CERN/3914/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
- 15:20 → 15:40
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 15:40 → 17:00
  - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
  - 15:40
    Recommendations from the Working group on the Rights and Obligations of Council Office Holders (Dr U. Dosselli) 25m
    
    CERN/SPC/1260/RA/Rev. CERN/FC/6870/RA/Rev.2 CERN/3876/C/Rev.2
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 16:05
    Associate Member States: possible measures in the event of contribution arrears (Ms C. Warakaulle) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6886/RA/Rev. CERN/3895/C/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 16:20
    Reappointment of the FC Vice-Chair 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6913/RA CERN/3921/C
    
    English
    
    French
  - 16:25
    Update on potential funding models for a possible Future Circular Collider project at CERN (Director-General) 35m
    
    CERN/FC/6926/RA CERN/3919/C
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 17:00 → 17:55
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  - 17:00
    New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley) 35m
    
    Slides
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the operation and maintenance of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and sanitary equipment in CERN’s tertiary buildings and other works related thereto 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6915/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the civil engineering works required for the construction of vertical cores at LHC Points 1 and 5 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6916/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply and maintenance of cars and light utility vehicles 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6917/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licences, maintenance and support for a business process management solution 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6918/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licences for computer-aided engineering software tools and associated technical services 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6919/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of AMD-XILINX field-programmable gate arrays for the CMS experiment 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6920/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a technical support agreement, without competitive tendering, for the execution of the activities of the Electrical Quality Assurance (ElQA) programme relating to the LHC superconducting magnet circuits 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6921/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of two new and the overhaul of five existing helium screw compressors 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6922/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the retrofit of klystrons for the HL-LHC 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6923/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of a high-energy laser-pulse compressor 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6924/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of scaffolding services on the CERN site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6925/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 17:35
    Overview of current service contracts (Mr C. Hartley) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6914/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 17:50
    
    Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda 2m
  - 17:52
    Other business 3m
    
    Revised timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2026 (CERN/3869/Rev.)
    
    English