activity report_2012.pdf

54 thousand RON out of which was spent (31.90% of the final budget allocations);  technical operations – 202,424.64 thousand RON, 202,369.48 thousand RON out of which were spent (19.81%);  financial and logistic – 229,098.27 thousand RON, 229,056.34 thousand RON was spent (22.42%);  administration, analysis, planning, cooperation and control – 264,428.28 thousand RON, 264,373.62 thousand RON out of which was spent (25.87%). According to Law no.294/2011 regarding the state social insurance budget for 2012, initially, SRI received funds amounting to 327,284 thousand RON. This sum was subsequently modified, supplemented with 2,929 thousand RON (through OUG no.62/2012), the final budget for the year 2012 was of 346,555 RON. 43 CHAPTER VIII 2013 PRIORITIES VIII.1. Overview In 2013, SRI will continue its actions in order to achieve its major objectives and strategic missions provided for in the Intelligence Strategy, for an optimal management and an opportune countering of risks and threats to national security stipulated in the document The Intelligence Estimate for 2013. From this perspective, the Service shall take into consideration as priorities:  The risks to economic stability, to financial balance, and to regional development, including the efforts to join and connect to a series of objectives undertaken in the EU environment, the community funds absorption;  serious deficiencies of the central and local administration, and acts associated with widespread corruption that can affect national security;  risk factors generated by difficulties in the modernization or in the ongoing reform process of the health, education and social protection systems;  ensuring energy security and implementing national policies in the field;  tax evasion as well as fiscal and customs fraud on a large scale;  intelligence activities that are hostile/contrary to national interests of certain intelligence services, as well as certain private entities;  cross-border threats, mainly organized crime networks, smuggling on a large scale, drug trafficking and illegal migration, CBRN proliferation, correlated with the increasing danger of local criminal groups;  extremist manifestations regardless of their reasons, as well as other actions that can affect the ethnic and social climate;  terrorism risks associated with the presence on the national territory of certain members and sympathizers of ethnic-separatist or Islamic groups, risks associated with the recrudescence on a European level of extremist and/or xenophobe trends of thought or ideologies that are violently expressed;  potential national security risks generated by the security situation in Syria or in other conflict areas;  risks and vulnerabilities of the critical infrastructures (insisting on identifying and combating cyber-attacks, and other actions that can affect national IT&C systems);  the impact of latent conflicts in countries neighboring Romania. As far as the efforts to ensure an efficient response to new types of risks and threats to national security are concerned, one of the major challenges that the Service faces originates in the old legal framework on national security. Adopting new legislation would allow SRI to better adapt its institutional capabilities and responsibilities to the increasingly faster dynamics of the international security environment. 44 VIII.2. Objectives and guidelines for 2013 Throughout the Service, the following objectives (implemented on several years) and guidelines shall be taken into account; these have been established in accordance with the Strategic Perspective 2011-2015, “SRI in the informational era” and SRI intelligence Strategy. 1. Developing the capacity to know, prevent, and counter risk factors and threats to national security, also the capacity to protect and promote Romanian values and interests, and security interests that Romania shares with its partners and allies. Guidelines:  Planning intelligence collection in accordance with the priorities established in the relevant national documents, the requirements/needs of the policymakers, and the evolving operational situation;  ensuring the analysis capacity on an operational level, and strengthening the role of intelligence analysis in supporting strategic decisions;  reinforcing the mechanism of legal assistance and support for specific activities, which would allow more efficiency in informing/notifying the criminal prosecution bodies, the legal representation;  developing or, if the case may be, reinforcing the institutional capacities associated with the SRI responsibilities in those fields where SRI is the national authority. On such fields, one shall take into account:  The prevention and combating of terrorism: - strengthening cooperation within SNPCT, especially with MAI, also by setting up common working groups; - developing the necessary capabilities of the armed attendants on board of aircrafts that fly to and from Romania, and on the national territory, as well as the capabilities necessary for carrying out the exchange of intelligence for the security of the respective aircrafts.  Cyber-intelligence: - improving the activity of the CyberINT National Center, by increasing its capacity to collect events and incidents in the cyber-space.  Classified Information Protection: - Ensuring the general support necessary for improving/upgrading national legislation in the field of the protection of classified information, through the relations with the National Registry Office for State Secret Information, and the Integrated Information Office within CNI.  Transport of correspondence containing state secret and secret information: 45  - Ensuring the safe and efficient functioning of the system for the collection, transport, distribution, and protection of classified correspondence, in the areas under its responsibility.  Implementing the Integrated IT System: - Ensuring the management of Romania’s Integrated IT System, developing exploitation applications; - Strengthening integrated planning instruments, and the institutional analysis mechanisms; - increasing performance in the field of human resources, especially with respect to supporting and motivating professional excellence; - developing an integrated system for the management of human resources, thus implementing an uniform and modern method of management, leadership, analysis, logging and control of the human resources; - continuing the implementation of the internal control policy of SRI; - introducing IT capabilities for the document flows, extending the electronic support for their circulation, and for the Registry and Secretariat activities, as well as implementing electronic archiving. 2. Setting up an integrated structure of communication and information technology, ensuring the necessary technological tools in order to increase the Service activity performance, safely and efficiently. Guidelines:  Improving technical capabilities to process and integrate data from all sources of information, for the finding, the systematization and timely exchange of data and information;  introducing IT capabilities for the flows of information and data inside the Service, associated with internal management processes; this should allow a more efficient, real time functioning of informational and decision-making circuits;  Intensifying efforts to increase the technical capabilities of the National CyberINT Center, for the efficient collection and processing of events and incidents in the electronic environment. 3. Developing and frequently using cooperation/communication opportunities in order to accomplish the SRI missions, promote national security interests and observe the Service duties. Guidelines:  Expanding and deepening the cooperation between the Service and the bodies that are members of the national security system, and law-enforcement bodies. To this purpose, the main priorities are: - increasing the quality and timeliness of information exchanges with the other institutions; 46  - a stronger cooperation among experts, and organizing common actions/missions; - mutual support in accomplishing specific tasks and technical and operational tasks; - strengthening the technologic dimension and methods to survey and improve technical and scientific results in order to ensure support for other institutions;  Active and pragmatic relationships designed to obtain directly quantifiable benefits, by a more efficient use of the existing IT tools;  Improving the Service public communication activity in order to project a correct image of the Service, promoting the role that the Service has in managing the national security issues, and in the development of the security culture within the civil society at the same time with the communication within the Service. 4. Ensuring the financial and logistic support necessary for the functioning of the Service units, according to institutional priorities Guidelines:  Upgrading/strengthening strategies, planning instruments and analysis mechanisms in the field of the management and use of financial and material resources;  ensuring the financial resources necessary for the functioning of the units, which are allocated to the fields and projects of interest to the Service;  continuing the efforts to modernize and develop the building infrastructure that is property of the Service, by carrying on investment works that were started in the previous years, and initiating new investments;  improving working conditions, and recovery of the work capabilities by the SRI personnel, by increasing the quality level of the logistic support, and of the services provided.  ensuring transport services by car, air or sea, at the performance level required by the Service missions; increasing the performance and quality of the medical services offered through the primary medical network, in the specialized ambulatory and in the hospital, developing the activity of the clinical section, and of the academic research activities. 5. Strengthening institutional security. Guidelines:  estimating and managing counterintelligence risks given the dynamics of the Service activities, and the technological developments, arguing for and implementing certain integrated security policies  using on a wide basis the facilities offered by the new technologies for all components of institutional security. 47