She served as policy assistant to the Director for electronic communications during the time of the opening of the telecoms market that led to new services, lower prices for consumers and job creation across Europe.

3. Calls for the right balance to be sought between prevention policies and repressive measures in order to preserve freedom, security and justice; stresses that security measures should always be pursued in accordance with the principles of the rule of law and the protection of fundamental rights such as the right to privacy and data protection, freedom of expression and association and due process; calls on the Commission, therefore, when implementing the European Agenda on Security, to take due account of the recent Court of Justice ruling on the Data Retention Directive (judgment ...[+++] in Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12), which requires all instruments to comply with the principles of proportionality, necessity and legality, and to include the appropriate safeguards of accountability and judicial redress; calls upon the Commission to fully assess the impact of this judgement on any instrument involving the retention of data for law enforcement purposes;

15. Takes note that in 2013, the IAS performed an audit on the adequacy and effectiveness of the Joint Undertaking's internal control system with regard to management of experts; acknowledges from the audit conclusions that the current internal control system provides reasonable assurance for the achievement of the Joint Undertakings objectives as regards the management of experts; furthermore, notes that several important recommendations were made regarding the adoption of a comprehensive confidentiality policy as well as for the sensitivity of the programme officer's post and for the rules for the allocation of the workload for the r ...[+++]emote evaluators;

15. Takes note that in 2013, the IAS performed an audit on the adequacy and effectiveness of the Joint Undertaking's internal control system with regard to management of experts; acknowledges from the audit conclusions that the current internal control system provides reasonable assurance for the achievement of the Joint Undertakings objectives as regards the management of experts; furthermore, notes that several important recommendations were made regarding the adoption of a comprehensive confidentiality policy as well as for the sensitivity of the programme officer's post and for the rules for the allocation of the workload for the r ...[+++]emote evaluators;

23. Points out that at the core of the new strategy there needs to be an alternative programme, reshaping and strengthening the economic recovery programmes of the Member States and co-ordinating them with a systemic European Recovery Initiative for equity, full employment with ‘good work’, greening the economy, social welfare, eradicating poverty and social exclusion and creating improved social and territorial cohesion across the EU –a programme which is also gender-equality streamlined in all of its components;

7. Believes that it is essential for the development of tourism and the creation of new services capable of generating employment and guiding the national and regional authorities in drawing up programming strategies for Objectives 1, 2 and 3 of the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund to be referred to explicitly in the guidelines for the structural programmes for the years 2000-2006,