Foreword
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The Business Plan of the EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre (EEC) sets out our values, where we are now, how we seek to make EEC business evolve, and how we propose to do it. Business planning started at the EEC in autumn 1997 and culminated in the approval by the Agency Executive Board of EEC Business Plan version 1.0 on 13 April 1999. Since this first version the EEC Business Plan is revised on an annual basis and is synchronised with the annual budgetary cycle. The last version 2.0 has been approved by the Agency Executive Board on 6 July 2000. The Business Plan has already proved to be an invaluable and essential tool for focusing on EEC activity, and for supporting strategic decision making and high level monitoring. For this 2001 revision, a simplified format has been adopted in order to make it more readable at executive level. The new document is articulated along six chapters. After a first introductory chapter that gives the objective of the business plan and the process which is followed for its annual update, chapter 2 gives a brief overview of the EEC with its mission, its history, its activities, and its current organisation. Next follows chapter 3, which describes the strategic orientation for the EEC Work Programme, in the context of the global strategy of the Agency. Chapter 4 gives a brief description of the EEC Work Programme with a synthetic view of the main activities and projects that are managed at the EEC. Then comes chapter 5, which gives an analysis of the resources (Staff and Financial resources) required for the execution of this Work Programme. Finally the Business Plan is concluded with the Key Performance indicators used to measure the performance of the EEC. It must be underlined that this last chapter, which is essential to monitor the performance of the EEC, has progressed little since the last Business Plan and that some of the identified KPIs are very difficult to measure. An action has thus been launched at the agency level in order to define pertinent and measurable indicators. In parallel, a task force, at the level of the EUROCONTROL agency, has been initiated in order to harmonise the approach for the different directorates of the agency. Therefore all the existing KPIs have been reviewed for this release of the Business Plan; and a new set of indicators is proposed in chapter 6. The revised EEC Business Plan has been submitted for consultation to the ECCG on 10 May 2001, and, for approval, to the EEC Management Board on 18 May 2001. This version integrates the comments received during these meetings and is identified as version 3.0.
Jean-Marc Garot, Director EEC.