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nsferred to the National Council for the Study of ex-Securitate Archives (CNSAS). The documents given to CNSAS also included 125 personnel files of “Securitate” officers whose names were published in the Official Monitor as members of former repressive police, and 34,932 evidence notes. SRI has also constantly supported CNSAS’ activity by promptly answering the Council’s requests. 30 CHAPTER VI PRIORITIES FOR 2009 According to the landmarks established by the “2007-2010 Strategic Perspective”, SRI will put into practice the necessary measures to accomplish the next objectives:  consolidate the knowledge capacity on security issues and trends in short and medium term;  develop the prevention and counteraction capabilities – independently or within internal/external cooperation formulas – of risk factors and threats to national security and Romanian allies;  effective use of the opportunities to promote national interests and to support the security values in Euro-Atlantic context;  continue the approaches of institutional flexibility to ensure the conditions to adapt and react in real-time to present security challenges. Scopul procesului de modernizare este transformarea Serviciului într-o organizaţie deplin integrată în societatea informaţională, cu o structură flexibilă şi procese interne dinamice, care să permită adaptarea permanentă la mediul de securitate şi abordarea pro-activă a responsabilităţilor atribuite prin lege. The purpose of modernization process is the SRI’s transformation into an organization fully integrated in the information society, with a flexible structure and dynamic internal processes that allow a permanent adaptation to the security environment and a pro-active approach to its legal responsibilities. The Service will consider the following directions of action:  evaluating the efficiency of new organizational formulas and the communication and intra-institutional cooperation flows;  adapting the planning tools of activity and initiating the first complete cycle of integrated multi-annual planning (2010-2014);  developing the middle level management capabilities and stimulating the horizontal cooperation to link in real time the strategic decision to tactical evolutions;  consolidating and technologically improving the IT&C infrastructure and specific technical abilities of a modern intelligence service;  modernizing human resources management through reevaluating the training process, puting into practice some appropriate tools for motivation and professional development and developing a new model carrier for the intelligence officer. Given the characteristics of the security environment, the Romanian Intelligence Service will focus its resources on:  improving the tools for the monitoring of the national security risk and permanently connecting the activities to the threats dynamics and the opportunities to promote the national interests. From this perspective, the RIS activity in 2009 will focus on: - the effects of the international economical crisis on the over-all social- economic situation, in order to identify the risk sources, the factors and – within the 31 limits of our responsibilities – some possible ways of countering or diminishing their impact; - energy security issues, with a focus on identifying the risks and the evolution perspectives, respectively possible ways to promote national interests in the European and international context; - corruption and deficiencies in the management of public resources likely to affect national security; - hostile espionage activities undertaken by foreign services that aim to obtain unauthorized access to classified information or to influence the decision process in directions contrary to national security interests; - international terrorist phenomenon with potential influences in Romania; - transborder risks, with a focus on organized crime;  consolidating and improving the Service’s analytical abilities and its relations with legal customers. The Service will act for: - the appropriate dissemination of the obtained information, through increasing the quality of its analytical products and permanently relating them to the customers needs; - a better use of the analytical structures in the orientation and sizing of the operative efforts; - optimizing the analysts′ training and professional development programs; - consolidating the abilities of the information integration, through the improvement of multisource analysis tools; - consolidating the early warning ability, by efficient exploitation of open sources;  ensuring the necessary tools and fulfilling SRI’s responsibilities in the fields where the Service is national or designated authority. In 2009, the following will be considered priorities: - continuing the improvement of the procedures on the cooperation and technical coordination within the of National System of Prevention and Counteraction of Terrorism , according to the Supreme Council of National Defense decisions; - developing the CYBERINT capabilities and creating a potential for proper answer to IT&C security threats; - optimizing the procedural framework and the activities for protection of the national, NATO and EU classified information;  undertaking technological development of the intelligence activity, especially of some new information collection and management platforms ′s which allow the efficient valorification of modern technologies in our Service activities. SRI will continue to implement the necessary measures for: - adaptating the technological capabilities and operational procedures of the National Center of Communication Interception to the operative and cooperation needs; - developing the technical capabilities of collecting information; - creating an integrated IT infrastructure able to provide real-time IT&C services and, thus, ensure the electronic management of the internal flows of information; 32  consolidating the cooperation with national security institutions and stimulating the activities related to the information of the prosecuting authorities;  adopting a new concept on the international cooperation that will include tools for optimizing consultation procedures among national institutions represented in external cooperation formats;  protecting the institutional security, by updating procedures and tools for an appropriate protection of its own activity, infrastructure and personnel;  continuing and optimizing the cooperation with the civil society as well as SRI’s public communication. __________ 33