46. Considers that threat assessments must be complemented with risk assessments analysing threats in the light of existing vulnerabilities and thus identifying the most pressing capability gaps to be addressed; recalls that within the implementation of the Internal Security Strategy, the EU should establish by 2014 a coherent risk management policy linking threat and risk assessments to decision-making; recalls also that by the end of 2012 the Commission should prepare, on the basis of national risk analyses, a cross-sectoral overview of the major natural and man-made risks that the EU may face in the future; encourages the Member St ...[+++]ates to share their national risk assessments and risk management plans, to enable a joint appraisal to be made of the situation;

41. Calls on Member States to contribute more to an integrated EU-wide threat assessment by increasing the flow of information to SitCen in the Secretariat of the Council of the EU; calls on Member States to increase staff and resources at the disposal of the Situation Centre and to make increasing use of its combined terrorism assessments, which include information on external threats and information from internal security services and Europol;

41. Calls on Member States to contribute more to an integrated EU-wide threat assessment by increasing the flow of information to SitCen in the Secretariat of the Council of the EU; calls on Member States to increase staff and resources at the disposal of the Situation Centre and to make increasing use of its combined terrorism assessments, which include information on external threats and information from internal security services and Europol;

32. Calls on Member States to contribute more to an integrated EU-wide threat assessment by increasing the flow of information to the Situation Centre of the EU Council Secretariat; calls on Member States to increase staff and resources at the disposal of the Situation Centre and to make increasing use of its unique combined terrorism assessments, which include information on external threats and information from internal security services and EUROPOL;

[6] Intelligence-led border management describes a process of gathering and analysing data for threat analysis and risk assessment, with a view to establishing certain risk criteria.

A final challenge under this strand is to ensure that the EU's policy in the counter-terrorism area is adequately evidence-based and supported by the best available threat assessments. Part of the answer to that challenge will come from jointly establishing a methodology based on common parameters for analysing threats at European level.