HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL

25 May 2020

EXTRAORDINARY CLOSED COUNCIL

DIRECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT

The Council heard an oral report by the Director-General on the status of the Organization since the site and facilities had been placed in “safe mode” on 20 March 2020, and on the comprehensive measures being taken at present to ensure a gradual, cautious and safe restart.

DRAFT UPDATE OF THE EUROPEAN STRATEGY FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS

The Council heard a report by the Strategy Secretary, Professor H. Abramowicz, addressing the matters raised by delegations on the proposed Strategy update at and since the Session in March 2020, expressed its appreciation to her and everyone involved in the Strategy update process and agreed that the work of the European Strategy Group and its subsidiary bodies was now complete.

The Council then discussed a draft Resolution on the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics and invited the President’s Group to make a number of amendments to it and to submit the revised version for consideration in June.

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