Capacity building and coordination also concern the EU institutions: a Computer Emergency Response Team responsible for the security of the IT systems of the EU institutions, agencies and bodies ("CERT-EU") was permanently established in 2012.

The Commission asks ENISA to: · Assist the Member States in developing strong national cyber resilience capabilities, notably by building expertise on security and resilience of industrial control systems, transport and energy infrastructure · Examine in 2013 the feasibility of Computer Security Incident Response Team(s) for Industrial Control Systems (ICS-CSIRTs) for the EU. · Continue supporting the Member States and the EU institutions in carrying out regular pan-European cyber incident exercises which will also constitute the operational bas ...[+++]is for the EU participation in international cyber incident exercises.

Stresses that it is important for the European Parliament and the other institutions to adopt an ambitious and far-reaching digital strategy with regard to the Web 2.0 tools and social networks in particular, to strengthen the link between Europe and its citizens; further considers that Parliament and the other institutions should develop an electronic governance strategy; calls for teleworking to be used where appropriate; calls on the Bureau to consider the introduction of a cloud computing system to reduce the operating costs of ...[+++] the computer system, improve its performance and bring greater mobility to Parliament’s work;

Your Rapporteur has taken into consideration the discussions held during the Workshop organised by the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection on 11 December 2008 as well as the input received by several stakeholders, institutions and academia, such as CEN (European Committee for Standarisation), CEMA (European Committee of Associations of Manufacturers of Agricultural Machinery), Pesticide Action Network-Europe, Orgalime (The European Engineering Industries Association), Julius Kühn-Institute-Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI-Germany) and the Department of Agricultural Engineering and ...[+++]Informatics of the University of Agriculture in Krakow.

The institute, set up in September 2001, is a product of the merger between the former Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety and part of the Space Applications Institute. It has the task of providing support for action taken by the EU in the area of the protection of citizens, and in particular IT security and measures to combat fraud, natural disasters and technological and economic risk and nuclear non-proliferation and safeguards.

This includes operation, administration, maintenance, engineering or billing computer systems.