Council document CERN/2732/Rev. of September 2007, addresses the practical follow up of the Strategy in the European Strategy Sessions:

Among the subjects to be submitted for consideration by the European Strategy Sessions will be infrastructure projects with a global or European dimension. Council will recognise an infrastructure project as being relevant to the European Strategy for Particle Physics following a proposal from Strategy Secretariat.

Once a project has been recognised, the Strategy Secretariat will report regularly on the project to the European Strategy Session of Council. The Strategy Secretariat will advise Council on the status of the projects and the European contributions to them and, where appropriate, make recommendations for action. Council will decide or recommend on these issues as appropriate.

These projects are called European Strategy Projects.

The procedure for identifying and recognising the European Strategy Projects was approved by Council in 2008, including how to deal with projects in the initial phase (Document CERN Council-S/030). The roles of ECFA and the Scientific Policy Committee in this process are addressed in this document.

The criteria for identifying the European Strategy Projects are their scientific and strategic relevance with the respect to the European Strategy for Particle Physics and its update expected in 2011-12. The project should be of global or European dimension, in terms of scope, scientific community and investments. The European community should be a significant part of the overall project community and several CERN members states should be involved. Particular attention will be given to projects were European coordination is needed, and projects that represent long term European strategic choices, or provide important scientific or technical guidance related to such future projects.