Cooperation between Member States requires a well-functioning electronic information system in order to allow competent authorities easily to identify their relevant interlocutors in other Member States and to communicate in an efficient way.

the revision of rules applicable to state aid for RD and innovation the proposal to create a general block exemption regulation which will authorise state aid without a need to notify the measure to the Commission the review of the regulation specifying the amount below which a subsidy is not considered state aid (the de minimis regulation) the new rules on services of general economic interest and regional aid, which were adopted in 2005.

the potential shortfall of non-linguistic staff for certain nationalities, due to the fact that the number of staff needed for linguistic purposes (about 80 administrator grade staff) exceeds total planned recruitment for some smaller Member States ; speeding up the recruitment process, in particular in senior management recruitments; the significant shortfall in the number of laureates produced in comparison with the number requested in certain competitions ; the length and heaviness of procedures in non-management and middle management recruitment process, mainly due to the new inter-institutional aspects of the procedure.

3. They shall improve coordination of judicial cooperation in cases where a series of requests from the local judicial authorities in a Member State necessitates coordinated action in another Member State.

In addition to the joint supervisory body, each Member State designates a national supervisory body to ensure that personal data are input, retrieved and transmitted to Europol in accordance with national law.

It is very likely that objective can be better achieved in the private sector than in the hands of a crown corporation, because unfortunately, the pattern with respect to the crown over the last 33 years has entailed a substantial amount of subsidization that is simply not sustainable.