Series CERN-FC-1 to CERN-FC-ongoing - Finance Committee

12,553 Items (ongoing)

In accordance with the CERN Convention (1953), the CERN Council established a Finance Committee which held its first meeting on 9th October 1954. The role of the Finance Committee is to control the management of CERN on behalf of the Council and the Member States. It checks the accounts, it gives its opinion on certain expenditures before they are made, it looks at the distribution of industrial contracts between national industries, it considers salary scales and management of personnel and so on. It is composed of at least one representative from each Member State, representing their countries.

CERN Council Secretariat

The items in this collection were created for and from the meetings of the Finance Committee. The usual documents are lists of participants, agenda, minutes, progress reports, and drafts of all these documents

Nothing was destroyed.

The collection is still open and accruals are received regularly, soon after they are produced.

The original order has been preserved. Items are first arranged by language (English, French and German) and then numerical and chronological order.

See file level description and the CERN operational circular No 3: rules applicable to archival material and archiving at CERN. In general, records on any subject that are over 30 years old, and all records of a purely scientific nature, may be consulted.

Copyright is retained by CERN, no reproduction without permission.

• English

• French

• German

• Latin

• The CERN Scientific Policy Committee collection (also available in English, French and German) * The CERN Council and Committee of Council collection (also available in English, French and German)

Description prepared by Sandrine Reyes. Geneva, the 26th April 2001, Revised 2007.

• English