Name: Council - Hundred-and-eighty-first Session
Start: 2016-06-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-06-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Thursday, June 16, 2016 Documents

9.00 a.m. Closed Session (CERN (60/6-015))

Report by the Credentials Committee

Matters Arising from Previous Meeting

Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Hundred-and-Eightieth Session of Council

CERN/3234/RA English French

Adoption of the Agenda

CERN/3235 English French

Enlargement Process

5.1	Application for Associate Membership at CERN by the Government of India Report by the fact-finding Task Force (Ms C. Warakaulle)

CERN/3254/RA English French Slides

5.2	Recent developments (Director-General)

Slides

Elections

6.1	Re-appointment of the Chair and appointment of a new Vice-Chair of the Governing Board of the Pension Fund

CERN/3253/RA English French

6.2	Call for nominations for the next Chair of Finance Committee - Preliminary discussion of the list of candidates

Senior Staff Appointment Replacement of the Human Resources Department Head (Director-General)

CERN/SPC/1067/RA CERN/3249/RA English French Slides

Confirmation of access status of documents of the Session

Other Business

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12.00 p.m. Restricted Session (CERN (60/6-015))

Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Hundred-and-Seventy-Ninth Session of Council

CERN/3233/RA English French

Matters Arising from Previous Meeting

President’s Report - Oral

Director-General’s Report - Oral

Slides

Developments in the Member States relevant for CERN

Scientific Policy Committee

SPC Summary

6.1	Draft Note from the SPC Working Group on the Council question concerning R&D activities for a future high-energy frontier machine (Prof. T. Nakada)

White Paper

6.2	New questions from delegations

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Standing Advisory Committee on Audits (SACA) (Ms C. Jamieson)

SACA 1-2 June-summary

7.1	Report and Recommendations of the SACA chair (Ms C. Jamieson - Oral)

7.2	Procedure for the selection and appointment of the External Auditors of the Organization

CERN/3250 English French

7.3	New questions from delegations

Co-operation agreement between the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Government of Latvia (Ms C. Warakaulle)

CERN/3257/RA English French

The High-Luminosity LHC Project (Director-General)

CERN/SPC/1068 CERN/FC/6014 CERN/3255 English French Slides

10.

Medium-Term Plan for the Period 2017-2021 and Draft Budget of the Organization for the sixty-third Financial Year 2017 (Director-General)

CERN/SPC/1064 CERN/FC/6011 CERN/3246 English French Slides

11.

2017 Budget: Scale of Contributions (Dr M. Steinacher)

CERN/FC/6008 CERN/3243 English French Slides

12.

Proposed Amendments to the 11th Edition of the Staff Rules & Regulations

CERN/FC/6012 CERN/3247 English French

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13.

CERN Pension Fund

13.1	Report by the Chair of the Governing Board (Dr T. Roth - Oral)

Report

13.2	Periodic Actuarial Review of the Pension Fund as of 1.1.2016

CERN/FC/6013/RA CERN/3248/RA English French

13.3	Draft Mandate for the Consulting Actuary for a cost analysis of measures relating to the CERN pension scheme

CERN/3256/RA English French

14.

Pension Fund Governance

CERN/3251/RA English French

15.

Access Status of Council documents

CERN/3252 English French

16.

Confirmation of access status of documents of the Session

17.

Other Business

Friday, June 17, 2016 Documents

9.00 a.m. Open Session (CERN (503/1-001))

Report on the decisions taken at Restricted and Closed Sessions (President of Council - Oral)

Slides

Report by the Chair of the Finance Committee (Ms C. Jamieson - Oral)

Report by the Chair of the Scientific Policy Committee (Prof. T. Nakada - Oral)

Slides

Annual Progress Report

4.1	Annual Progress Report for 2015 (Dr M. Steinacher)

CERN/SPC/1061/Rev. CERN/FC/5986/Rev. CERN/3228/Rev. English French Slides

4.2	Assessment and Comments by the External Auditors on the Annual Progress Report 2015

CERN/FC/6000 CERN/3236 English French

4.3	Assessment and Comments by the SPC on the Annual Progress Report for 2015 (Prof. T. Nakada - Oral)

4.4	Assessment and Comments by the FC and SACA on the Annual Progress Report for 2015 (Ms C. Jamieson - Oral)

Financial Statements of CERN

5.1	Financial Statements for 2015 (Dr M. Steinacher - Oral)

CERN/FC/6001 CERN/3237 English French Slides

5.2	Report by the External Auditors on the Financial Statements of CERN for the Financial Year 2015

CERN/FC/6002 CERN/3238 English French

5.3	Recommendations from the External Auditors to the CERN Management on the Financial Statements of CERN and comments from the CERN Management

CERN/FC/6003 CERN/3239 English French

5.4	Assessment and Comments by the FC and SACA on the Financial Statements of CERN for 2015 (Ms C. Jamieson - Oral)

Financial Statements of the CERN Pension Fund

Slides

6.1	Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year ended 31 December 2015

CERN/FC/6004 CERN/3240 English French

6.2	Report by the External Auditors on the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year ended 31 December 2015

CERN/FC/6005 CERN/3241 English French

6.3	Recommendations from the External Auditors to the CERN Pension Fund Management on the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year ended 31 December 2015 and comments from the CERN Pension Fund Management

CERN/FC/6006 CERN/3242 English French

6.4	Assessment and Comments by the FC and SACA on the Financial Statements of the CERN Pension Fund for 2015 (Ms C. Jamieson - Oral)

Draft Timetable of Council Sessions and Committee Meetings in 2017

CERN/3244/Draft English French

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LHC Matters

8.1	Status Report (Dr F. Bordry - Oral)

Slides

8.2	Status Report on the LHC Experiments and Computing (Prof. E. Elsen - Oral)

Slides

Particle Physics in China, present and plans (Prof. Yifang Wang)

Slides

10.

Particle Physics in Japan, present and plans (Prof. Masanori Yamauchi)

Slides

11.

Confirmation of access status of documents

12.

Other Business

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

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