Summary 17 Septemper, 2009 Solna, Sweden
The 16th Strategy Committee was hosted by the Swedish Presidency in Solna, Sweden.
The Chair announced:
- Communications from the Presidency would be announced via the CEPOL website;
- The steps taken regarding the recruitment process of a new Director;
- Details of a meeting with the Commission about various CEPOL issues that took place on 16-17 July;
- The Director and a representative from the Swedish Presidency will attend a meeting with Europol in The Hague on 1 October 2009;
- Information on the process relating to the Five Year External Evaluation of CEPOL;
- Details of a procedure to have “A” agenda items (for adoption) and “B” agenda items (for discussion) that the Swedish Presidency will introduce during the 17th Governing Board meeting;
- The need to formally establish the Troika meetings;
- The future use of the e-Net Document Management System (DMS) for circulation of meeting documents;
- That the Secretariat has been requested to prepare a User’s Manual and Policy Paper for the DMS.
The Director announced:
- An update on the recruitment within the Secretariat and introduced Detlef Schroeder, the new Head of Programmes and Kate Armitage the new Head of Administration;
- The status of the budget execution to the end of the second quarter 2009.
The Strategy Committee recommend the 17th Governing Board adopt the draft decisions:
- Work Programme 2010;
- Memorandum of Understanding with Eurojust and ENFSI;
- The Establishment of an Audit Panel;
- The Disbandment of the ACTA Working Group;
- The Establishment of a Project Group to prepare Terms of Reference relating to the Five Year External Evaluation of CEPOL;
- Mission Guidelines.
The Committee also discussed:
- The impact of the Stockholm Programme on the work of CEPOL;
- The drafting of a framework of procedures on how to develop a CEPOL strategy and the preparation of an inventory of performance indicators already in place;
- The seat of the Secretariat and whether the United Kingdom is still the best location;
- The reduction by €1m of the Budget 2010.
