Restricted and Open Council - Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Second Session

Name: Restricted and Open Council - Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Second Session
Start: 2025-06-19T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-20T14:50:00+02:00
Location: CERN

19 Jun 2025, 09:00 → 20 Jun 2025, 14:50 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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Thursday 19 June
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- 09:00 → 18:50
  Restricted Council
  - 09:00
    
    Report on the credentials 1m
  - 09:01
    
    Matters arising from the previous meeting 5m
    
    Document for information - KPI's reflections relating to Personnel Returns
  - 09:06
    Adoption of the agenda 2m
    
    CERN/3908/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:08
    Approval of the draft minutes of the two-hundred-and-twenty-first Session - Restricted Council 2m
    
    CERN/3909/RA/Draft
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:10
    
    President’s report (Oral) 5m
    
    Slides
  - 09:15
    
    Director-General’s report (Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 09:35
    Medium-Term Plan for the period 2026-2030 and Draft Budget of the Organization for the Seventy-Second Financial Year 2026 (Director-General) 1h 5m
    
    CERN/SPC/1255/Rev. CERN/FC/6904/Rev. CERN/3910
    
    English
    
    FC Chair Intervention - RC June 2025
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Documents - Feedback from the SPC and FC on the MTP
    
    FC key messages on the MTP_English
    
    FC key messages on the MTP_French
    
    SPC Short Summary May 2025.pdf
  - 10:40
    2026 Scale of Contributions by the Member and Associate Member States (Mr R. Bello) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6911 CERN/3911
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 10:55
    
    Coffee break 20m
  - 11:15
    LHC and HL-LHC matters 1h 15m
    
    Status of the accelerator complex and upgrade (Dr M. Lamont - Oral) 30m
    
    Slides
    
    Status report on the LHC experiments and computing (Professor J. Mnich - Oral) 45m
    
    Slides
  - 12:30
    Proposed decision-making milestones for a possible Future Circular Collider (Director-General) 35m
    
    CERN/SPC/1259/RA CERN/3912/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 13:05
    International Cooperation Agreement with Guatemala (Ms C. Warakaulle) 5m
    
    CERN/3915/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 13:10
    
    Lunch 1h 10m
  - 14:20
    
    Developments in the Member and Associate Member States relevant for CERN 20m
  - 14:40
    Audit Committee (AC) 10m
    
    Key messages from the AC meeting held on 3 and 4 June 2025 10m
    
    CERN/3913/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Questions to the Audit Committee 1m
  - 14:50
    CERN Pension Fund 1h
    
    Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Dr F. Buzatu - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
    
    2025 Periodic Actuarial Review 45m
    
    CERN/FC/6912/RA CERN/3914/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 15:50
    
    Tea break 10m
Friday 20 June
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- 09:00 → 11:20
  Restricted Council
  - 09:00
    
    Report on non-LHC experiments (Professor J. Mnich - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 09:20
    
    Report on the Open Quantum Institute (Dr T. Smith - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 09:40
    
    Building a CERN AI Strategy (Dr F. Varela Rodriguez - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Report on ESPP status (Professor K. Jakobs - Oral) 30m
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Lessons learned at NASA about running big projects (Professor T. Zurbuchen - Oral) 50m
    
    Link to the slides
- 11:20 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 10m
- 11:30 → 14:50
  11:30: Open Council
  - 11:30
    CERN Annual Progress Report 2024 (Mr R. Bello) 30m
    
    CERN/SPC/1252/Rev. CERN/FC/6883/Rev. CERN/3886/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    CERN finances 2024 35m
    
    Financial Statements for 2024 (Mr R. Bello) 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 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6900 CERN/3905
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 12:35
    Pension Fund finances 2024 35m
    
    Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2024 (Mr D. Heron) 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6901 CERN/3906
    
    English
    
    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 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6902 CERN/3907
    
    English
    
    Slides
  - 13:10
    
    Lunch 1h
  - 14:10
    
    Report by the Chair of the Scientific Policy Committee (Dr H. Montgomery - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 14:30
    
    Report by the Chair of the Finance Committee (Dr L. Salzarulo - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
  - 14:45
    Revised timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2026 2m
    
    CERN/3869/Rev.
    
    English
  - 14:47
    
    Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda (Oral) 1m
  - 14:48
    
    Other business 2m