Council - Hundred-and-sixty-second Session

Name: Council - Hundred-and-sixty-second Session
Start: 2012-03-15T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2012-03-15T19:10:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Thursday 15 Mar 2012, 09:30 → 19:10 Europe/Zurich

60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F) (CERN)

60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)

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- 09:30 → 13:20
  Restricted Session
  - 09:35
    
    Report to the Credentials Committee 1m
  - 09:36
    Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Hundred-and-Sixty-First Session of Council Restricted and Closed Sessions 1m
    
    CERN/3002/RA/Draft
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:37
    Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Hundred-and-Sixty-First Session of Council Open Session 1m
    
    CERN/3003/Draft
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:40
    Adoption of the Agenda 1m
    
    CERN/3004
    CERN/3004/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:41
    
    Matters arising from previous meeting 1m
  - 09:42
    
    President’s Report 1m
    
    Letter
  - 09:43
    
    Director-General’s Report 1m
  - 09:44
    Member State Matters 1m
    
    General report on Member State matters (Director-General – Oral) 1m
    
    Developments in the Member States relevant for CERN 1m
  - 09:45
    Non-Member State Matters 15m
    
    General report on non-Member State matters (Director-General – Oral) 15m
  - 10:00
    LHC Progress Report 1h
    
    Report on the outcome of the LHC performance workshop, Chamonix, 6-10 February 2012 15m
    
    Slides
    
    Status report on the LHC Machine 15m
    
    Slides
    
    Status report on LHC Experiments and Computing 15m
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    Report by the Chairman of the Finance Committee (Dr B. Jacobsen – Oral) 20m
  - 11:50
    Annual Progress Report for 2011 20m
    
    CERN/SPC/985
    CERN/FC/5606
    CERN/3005
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 12:10
    Pension Fund 20m
    
    - Report by the Chairman of the Governing Board (Prof. D.O. Riska – Oral) 25m
    
    Financial Regulations of the Pension Fund 20m
    
    White Paper
    
    document
    
    Proposal by the Management concerning adjustment of the total contribution rate for new members of the CERN Pension Fund within the framework of the package of measures adopted in 2010 and 2011 20m
    
    CERN/FC/5612
    CERN/3010
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 12:30
    
    Information on the Medium-Term Plan for the Period 2013-2017 (Director-General – Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 12:50
    
    Report by the Chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee 5m
  - 12:56
    Questions from the Council to the SPC 1m
    
    New questions from the delegations 5m
  - 12:57
    
    Confirmation of the access status of the documents of the session 1m
  - 13:00
    
    Status of the European Strategy Update (Prof. T. Nakada – Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
  - 13:15
    
    Other Business 5m
- 13:20 → 13:59
  
  Lunch 39m
- 14:00 → 18:00
  Closed Session
  - 14:00
    Report on Applicant States 55m
    
    Update on the three remaining applications for Membership and on expressions of interest by other non-Member States (Director-General – Oral) 15m
    
    Possible mechanism to avoid politicization of the accession process in respect of the five Applicant States 15m
    
    CERN/3008/RA
    (Confidential)
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Application for Associate Membership at CERN by the Government of Ukraine and appointment of a fact-finding Task Force (Director-General – Oral) 15m
    
    Document (letter+file)
    
    document
    
    Harmonization of Romania’s entitlements with those of Associate States in the pre-stage to Membership at CERN 15m
    
    (Confidential)
    CERN/3009/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 14:55
    Procedure for Selecting and Appointing the Director-General of CERN 1h
    
    CERN/2329/Rev.2
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Next steps 15m
    
    CVs Candidates External Members Search Committee
    
    FIN-Chameau.pdf
    
    IT-Sette.pdf
    
    UK-_Montgomery.pdf
    
    document
    
    Letter
  - 15:55
    European Strategy Matters 25m
    
    Examination of proposals to hosting: Strategy Group Drafting Session, 21-26 January 2013 15m
    
    Slides
  - 16:20
    Standing Advisory Committee on Audits (SACA) 15m
    
    SACA recommendation to Council regarding the selection of the next External Auditors (Prof. M. Spiro – Oral) 15m
    
    Call for nominations of two new members 15m
    
    CERN/2883
    
    English
    
    French
    
    New questions from delegations to SACA 15m
  - 16:35
    Elections 25m
    
    Call for nominations for the next President of Council 10m
    
    Election of the Vice-Chairman of TREF 10m
    
    document
  - 17:00
    Appointments of SPC Members 15m
    
    Preliminary Discussion on future SPC membership 10m
    
    CERN/SPC/313/Rev.6
    CERN/2812
    
    English
    
    French
  - 17:15
    Pension Fund 5m
    
    Re-appointment of the Chief Executive Officer of the CERN Pension Fund 10m
    
    CERN/3007/RA
    (Confidential)
    
    English
    
    French