  The four LEP collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have collected a
total of 2461 pb-1 of e+e- collision data at centre-of-mass energies between
189 and 209 GeV. The data are used to search for the Standard Model Higgs
boson. The search results of the four collaborations are combined and examined
in a likelihood test for their consistency with two hypotheses: the background
hypothesis and the signal plus background hypothesis. The corresponding
confidences have been computed as functions of the hypothetical Higgs boson
mass. A lower bound of 114.4 GeV/c2 is established, at the 95% confidence
level, on the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson. The LEP data are also
used to set upper bounds on the HZZ coupling for various assumptions concerning
the decay of the Higgs boson.
