287th Meeting of Finance Committee

On 19 July 2001, on the basis of the mandate given by Council in 1989 to the Director-General to enter into Co-operation Agreements following a defined text model, CERN and the Government of the Republic of Croatia have entered into a Co-operation Agreement. The new Agreement replaces the Co-operation Agreement of 18 July 1991. As usual, the concrete implementation of the Co-operation Agreement is foreseen to take place through the conclusion of a Protocol. Following an Exchange of Letters on this subject between the Parties, agreement has now been reached on the text of a Protocol concerning the Croatian participation in the LHC Project. In particular, the Protocol stipulates Croatian contributions to the CMS and ALICE Experiments and envisages a possible Croatian contribution to the LHC Computing Grid. Although the Protocol contains no concrete financial commitment by CERN, pending a decision by the Committee of Council on procedures for agreements and protocols, the Management proposes that Finance Committee takes note of the text of the Protocol