- Scientific opinions on AMR by EU Risk Assessment bodies i.e. the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) have formed the basis for policy planning, for example, development of new antimicrobials and monitoring AMR and antimicrobial usage.

(3) The financing decisions should take the forms of Annual or Biennial Action programmes and Individual Measures when following the planning provided for by the multiannual strategic programming, of Special Measures where required by unforeseen and justified needs, and of Support Measures.

notes that the lack of systematic, robust autonomous management of local finances inevitably reduces local and regional authorities’ ability to take full responsibility for managing European funds, which requires adequate administrative and planning capabilities and enough funds to cover the local financial contribution; points out that, with regard to the growing role of programmes aimed at local and regional communities in the EU's neighbouring countries, consolidating the financial autonomy of local authorities is a key part of the process to identify solutions for common problems through regional and cross-border cooperation between ...[+++] local and regional authorities in the EU and Moldova;

The Commission principally defines three initiatives for achieving greater efficiency: on the one hand, making the decision-making process more dynamic, focussing the activity of the “MED Committee” on strategic planning and programming.

The Military Staff is to perform "early warning, situation assessment and strategic planning for Petersberg tasks including identification of European national and multinational forces" and to implement policies and decisions as directed by the European Union Military Committee (EUMC).

EU Council and Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe: enlarging the current ‘Informal Consultative Committee’ to include other key actors in the Stabilisation and Association Process countries, such as the World Bank, the IMF, the United Nations SRSG in Kosovo, the United Nations SGHR in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the EU Special Representative; reinforcing the strategic capacity of the Spe ...[+++]cial Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe and adjusting its current system of working methods in order to better reflect a renewed Stabilisation and Association Process (revision of the current system of the three Working Tables);