Name: Hundred-and-Forty-Eighth Session
Start: 2008-09-18T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2008-09-18T20:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

- RESTRICTED SESSION
- 1
  
  Report to the Credentials Committee
- 2
  Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Hundred-and-Forty-Seventh Session of Council
  - CERN/2805/Draft
  document
- 3
  Adoption of the Agenda
  - CERN/2806/Rev.
  document
- 4
  
  Matters Arising from Previous Meeting
- 5
  
  President's Report
- 6
  
  Director-General's Report
- 7
  
  Member State Matters (Director-General - Oral)
- 8
  
  LHC Inauguration Ceremony
  
  Slides
- 9
  
  Progress Report from the Task Force for the Accession Application of Romania (Chairman of the taskforce – Oral)
  
  Slides
- 10
  Non-Member State Matters (Director-General - Oral)
  - a) Further Discussion on International Agreements between CERN and Non-Member States
- 11
  The Start-Up of the LHC
  - a) Introduction (Director-General – Oral)
  - b) Accelerator (L. Evans – Oral)
    
    Slides
  - c) Experiments & Computing (J. Engelen – Oral)
    
    Slides
- 12
  Report by the Chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee (E. Fernandez - Oral)
  - a) Draft Revised Terms of Reference of the SPC
    
    White Paper
    
    document
- 13
  Questions from the Council to the SPC
  - a) Optimization of the Heavy Ion runs at the LHC (Prof. E. Fernandez – Oral)
  - b) New questions from the delegations
- 14
  
  Report by the Chairman of the Finance Committee (Dr M. Steinacher - Oral)
- 15
  CERN Pension Fund Matters
  - a) Progress report on the situation in the Member States on (partial) internal taxation of pensions or of retrocession of (parts of) the taxes levied on pensions of previous staff members of international organisations (Director-General – Oral)
  - b) Progress on the comprehensive review of the impact of parameters affecting the financial position of the Pension Fund (Chairman of the PFGB – Oral)
  - c) Next steps
- 16
  
  Other Business
- Closed Session
  - 17
    Elections:
    
    a) Council: Election of the Vice-Chairman of the Finance Committee
  - 18
    The Management Structure of CERN and Leadership Positions for the Years 2009 to 2013 by the Director-General Designate
    
    CERN/2807 (Confidential)
    
    document

Hundred-and-Forty-Eighth Session

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