For the latter, this includes: understanding the determinants of health and optimising the effectiveness of healthcare provision; supporting policies empowering rural areas; researching and preserving Europe's cultural heritage and richness; promoting informed consumer choices; creating an inclusive digital ecosystem based on knowledge and information; robust decision making on energy policy and in ensuring a consumer-friendly European electricity grid and a transition to a sustainable energy system; supporting evidence-based transport policy and foresight; supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, resource e ...[+++]fficiency initiatives and measures towards a green and sustainable economy; and understanding cultural and socio-economic aspects of security, risk and management issues (including legal and human rights aspects).

This can mean a rethinking of the fundamental policing model and the police role and their relationship to the community; the privatization of some police services, etc.; new organizational and occupational career models that allow for lateral entry; different kinds of recruiting and education strategies; new ways to deliver more cost-efficient services, such as civilianization, tiered policing, various forms of community servi ...[+++]ce officers—there are experiments that address that issue—and more effective use of new information and communication technologies; and finally, a better educated and more diverse police profession and a commitment to evidence-based models of strategies in public policing.

The verification methodology is documented, ensures that the process is systematic, transparent, evidence-based, carried out at regular intervals, covers all criteria and indicators within the scope and includes regular and timely reconciliation of data between each stage in the chain.

Ensuring that care systems are evidence-based is essential, both for providing high-quality treatment, and ensuring sustainability over the long term.

RECALLS the Council conclusions of 2 June 2006 on common values and principles in European Union Health Systems, which notably point to the need to ensure the accessibility and delivery of high-quality, safe and evidence-based care;

RECALLS that, while respecting the competencies of Member States, European cooperation on HTA can promote more consistent approaches to HTA as a health policy tool to support evidence-based, sustainable and equitable choices in healthcare and health technologies for the benefit of patients;