Translation of "Comité directeur des systèmes d'information " (French → English) :

15. Notes that in accordance with the strategic audit plan for 2012-2014 approved by the Joint Undertaking's Governing Board on 3 November 2011, the Commission's Internal Audit Service (IAS) performed an assurance engagement of project management and reporting on operational performance; points out that the final report which was dated 30 January 2014 includes recommendations regarding the Joint Undertaking's process of improving its monitoring systems on operational performance, such as reviewing the design and reporting of objectiv ...[+++]es and key performance indicators ("KPIs"), strengthening of the project monitoring and improving to the IT systems to enhance reporting;

12. Acknowledges the specific measures put in place by the Joint Undertaking in order to prevent conflicts of interest in respect of its three key stakeholders: Governing Board members, experts and employees such as a clear definition of conflict of interest with a database of all related information and process for managing them; notes that the written procedure regarding the specific measures was submitted to the Governing Board in November 2014; acknowledges that the Commission requested to postpone the adoption of the specific measures in order to provide a harmonised template for the measures given the horizontal nature of the sub ...[+++]ject; calls on the Joint Undertaking to swiftly proceed with the adoption of these specific measures;

establish and ensure the functioning of an effective and efficient internal control system and report any significant change to it to the Governing Board;

8. Acknowledges from the Foundation that since 2011, the Foundation has established a system of monitoring and reporting potential conflicts of interest of members of the Governing Board and the relevant forms are published on the Foundation's website; acknowledges, furthermore, that the Foundation’s Governing Board discussed a comprehensive strategy on the detection and management of conflicts of interest at its meeting of 25 October 2013 and that the policy is currently being finalised on this basis, with the aim of publishing it in the first quarter of 2014; calls on the Foundation to submit the adopted document to the discharge aut ...[+++]hority;

To enhance the role of design in innovation, the European Design Leadership Board has developed a set of proposals including: better access for companies to design; the promotion of design-led innovation for manufacturing systems; the promotion of design competencies; raising the profile of design in the EU research and innovation system; the wider application of design in the public sector; and the differentiation of European ...[+++] design at a global level.

These include the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Commission and the various stakeholders in the sector, the setting up of a steering committee for implementing this cooperation agreement, the adoption by the Commission of a Communication to the European Parliament and the Council on the deployment of the European rail signalling system ERTMS/ETCS, the appointment, by the Commission, of a European coordinator for the ERTMS project as a priority project of Community interest, the definition of the Agency's role as system ...[+++] authority in the context of the various annual work programmes, and the adoption of the ‘control-command and signalling’ TSI for conventional rail .