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a full-right member of the permanent organization. Yugoslavia was able to join as 

 the only communist couutrj- because it broke with the Soviet Union a few years 

 before. Unfortunately the membership lasted not long. The financial burden was 

 too heavy and Yugoslavia quit CERX in 1962. 



The decisive authority was to be the Council, composed of two representatives 

 from each member state. The council determines the budget through its Finance 

 Committee. The contributions of the member states are set proportional to their 

 GXP but never more than 25%. 



One of the great advantages of the budget process at CERX is the custom 

 introduced in 19C4 to determine ever}' year the budget for two years with a tentative 

 agreement about the subsequent two years. This makes planning much easier than 

 with a yearly budget. 



In October 1963 a design staff was assembled in Geneva, partly at the Institute 

 of Physics of the University and partly in temporarj- huts built in its vicinity. At 

 that time the transition took place from mainly theoretical work to experimentation 

 and technical designing. 



During 1953 an administrative nucleus began to function in a temporarj' Geneva 

 office. A Director General was chosen: It was Felix Bloch (1905-1983), a Swiss born 

 Nobel Laureate and American citizen, Professor at Stanford University. In the fall 

 of 1954 the provisional Organization was replaced by a permanent one. The first 

 Council Meeting officially establishing CERN was held in Geneva on October 7, 

 1954. It confirmed the plans of erecting a laboratory' in Meyriu with a smaller 

 synchrotron and a large proton-synchrotron. The total construction cost amounted 



