The purpose of the contract is to provide DG Home, but also other commission services, as well as the agencies in the area of home affairs, with timely evidence-based services of an intellectual nature to support its impact assessment, evaluation and evaluation related activities in the area of security.
The following interventions may be the subject of an evaluation in the area of Security:
— existing legislation, strategies and action plans,
— EU Agencies and networks,
— financial programmes, such as Internal Security Fund or any other financial programme managed by DG Home and the Agencies,
— current large- scale IT-systems, such as SIS, including future IT-systems, and more in general data collections systems at EU level (such as Passenger Name Record (PNR) and Advanced Passenger Information (API)).
The following initiatives may be the subject of an impact assessment in the area of Security:
— proposals for new legislation or amendments to existing legislation including where necessary implementing and delegated acts,
— proposals for non-legislative initiatives which define future policies,
— implementing measures (e.g. ‘comitology’ items) which are likely to have significant impacts.
Other evaluation related services include specific research activities meant to support DG Home evaluation activities in the area of Security, such as (non-exhaustive list): reports on the implementation of legislative instruments; feasibility studies including studies on information technology options related to policies; industrial and market studies; data gathering exercises; consultation of stakeholders; quantification and monetisation of costs of policy options; definition of methodological frameworks; etc.