CERN Council approves the Laboratory’s Medium Term Plan

CERN Council approves the Laboratory's Medium Term Plan. Geneva, 17 September 2010. During an intense series of meetings, which concludes today, the CERN ¹ Council overwhelmingly approved the laboratory's revised Medium Term Plan for the period 2011 to 2015. The plan was originally presented to Council at its June session, at which Council asked CERN management to introduce cost-saving measures. In the revised plan, Member State contributions will be reduced by a total 135MCHF over the five-year period, with measures to consolidate CERN's social security systems bringing the total reduction to the programme to 343MCHF. The plan protects the flagship LHC programme, achieving cost savings by slowing down the pace of other programmes. CERN management considers this a good result for the Laboratory given the current financial environment.