We decided to add a functional unit at the level of the Privy Council, because the Privy Council is supposed to oversee and lead the government apparatus insofar as policies and priorities are concerned, but not at an operational level.

In order to ensure coherence between the exercise of their respective responsibilities, operational working arrangements shall be made between the Agency and the Commission and reflected in a Memorandum of Understanding.

In order to ensure coherence between the exercise of their respective responsibilities, operational working arrangements shall be made between the Agency and the Commission and reflected in a Memorandum of Understanding.

- insufficient steps have been taken at Member State and NSA level to ensure proper supervision of cross-border air navigation service provision. The framework for the provision and supervision of cross-border services is not yet properly established in a number of Member States. Numerous cross-border arrangements seem to be known only at operational level but not yet formalised at institutional level; this may imply an absence of supervision on the cross-border service provision.. Member States must ensure that the legal basis for the cross-border provision of ANS in their sovereign territory is correctly established and enforced, and.

At legislative level action to improve OLAF’s effectiveness is continuing. In the next few months, the Commission will present a revised proposal for the reform of the Office’s regulatory framework, and there will be a review of all the different aspects of OLAF’s tasks. At operational level, the Commission stresses the priority of making better use of the operational expertise available to improve the prevention of irregularities and fraud in legislation and contract management.

However, at the national level—the strategic level, if you wish, as opposed to the operational level—the planning group that will be attached to NORAD will allow us to better achieve a better exchange of information and a better ability to assess maritime threats, and will allow us to develop plans and procedures to deal with those threats in a more timely manner.