1. CERN:important events • Restart of the LHC: • First beam on 20 November at 0.45 TeV • First collisions on 23 November, followed by slowly ramping up the beam energy to 1.18 TeV (= world record), corresponding to 2000A • Collisions until 16 December; now: technical shut-down until Feb. • Cost for repair: 40 MCHF (without accompanying measures) • DG’s future plans: • A lot of consolidation needed (spares, He storage, cooling/electricity maintenance, tunnel overpressure requirements, busbar splices, etc) =25 MCHF/year over approx. 4-5 years • Long-term outlook on LHC exploitation developed in the Chamonix workshop will go via SPC to Council in June • Possible change of operation mode to a bi-annual shut-down • Evolution of LHC: “Install new items when they are needed” • LHC upgrade (“Phase I”) (inner triplets, LINAC4) not before 2016 • S-LHC (“Phase II”)(luminosity x10, PS2, SPL) likely in the 2020ies.

2. CERN: Report from Council (1) • Council • elects Prof. Michel Spiro (FR) as President • extends the FC Chair Martin Steinacher (CH) for another year • notes that none of the large non-member States (Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Russia, USA, Korea) wants to become a full member. Brazil and India are looking into Associate Membership (provided the contributions are small enough…) • agrees to start at an informal level the technical verification process for the five applications received (Cyprus, Israel, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey); decision re applications will be taken later on the basis of the work of the WG Enlargement • notes the CERN Pension Fund situation, where 2’100 MCHF are missing (structural deficit aggravated by the financial crisis in 2008). Some 80 MCHF per year are needed over a period of 30 years to improve the situation.

3. CERN: Report from Council (2) Council agrees • on the guidelines for geographical enlargement • consensus on the principle of global opening of the Organization • the concrete paths towards global opening need to be examined further • the current Associate Status should be revised with a view to greater flexibility, balancing obligations and benefits • the relationship between the status of Candidate for Accession to CERN and the status of Associate Membership is to be discussed; • other options for participation in the Organization's activities will be streamlined (Observer Status, Co-op Agreements, etc) • to use the LHC upgrade as a test-bed for a global collaboration project („stakeholder model“, similar to the LHC experiments: RRB, maintenance and operation aspects) • to decouple the scientific enlargement from the geographical enlargement Next European Strategy update 2012?