Translation of "A5 Indicateurs de la performance " (French → English) :

including key performance indicators in agencies' annual work programmes and for agencies' Executive Directors;

The common approach contains a range of improvements, including: the need for an objective impact assessment before deciding to create a new agency, criteria for the choice of the seat and headquarters arrangements, regular overall evaluations (every five years) and the introduction of sunset or review clauses foreseeing the option of merging or closing down agencies, ex ante and ex post evaluations of the agencies' programmes/activities, the development of key performance indicators, a multi-annual programming to be linked with multiannual resource planning, a stronger link between actions performed by the agency and human and financial ...[+++] resources, a streamlined governance structure and making it clear who does what.

1. Welcomes the Agency's initiative to include Key Performance Indicators in its 2010 unit plans; calls, nevertheless, on the Agency to inform the discharge authority on these key indicators and their links to the Agency's objectives, budget and work programme; considers, in fact, that linking indicators to the objectives, budget and work programme of the Agency will allow stakeholders to evaluate the Agency's performance better;

There is a general positive relationship between indicators of innovative performance and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in a region .

2. Proposes the further development of best practices which, where appropriate, lead to key performance indicators (KPIs) for short sea shipping, as the development of best practices and key performance indicators can make a very important contribution towards enhancing the performance of short sea shipping; once established, KPIs can be used to compare performance between operators and other modes of transport and will help to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and highlight where improvements can be made;

promoting door-to-door package solutions with integrated facilities, such as one-stop shops, through the co-operation between the different transport modes and the different players in the logistic management of supply chain, through the establishment of best practices, through the examination, with a view to their introduction, of measures such as benchmarking and key performance indicators, through the collection and dissemination of data and information on short sea shipping i.a. using EUROSTAT, and through the active use of the co-operation framework provided by the round-tables and the focal points of the Member States and other nat ...[+++]ional initiatives to promote short sea shipping such as national short sea shipping information offices;