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The Strategy highlights the Service’s assumption of all responsibilities and tasks assigned to it through the objectives of Romania’s National Security Strategy, in observance of the Constitution and the national laws. 

The Strategy provides the necessary framework for: identifying the SIE’s priorities, and planning all needs and development resources; making the most efficient use of international intelligence liaison with similar structures abroad; adapting the organization and functioning of the Service in accordance with present and foreseeable developments within the regional and international security environment.
 
The nature of the international environment and the reassessment of the security concepts after September 11, 2001, have made all democratic countries reconsider the role, and extend the responsibilities of the intelligence services. These measures are particularly aimed at: consolidating the counterintelligence departments and those specialized in countering asymmetric threats; revaluing the human factor in the intelligence-operational activities; allocating significant supplementary financial resources to the intelligence structures; deepening the cooperation between intelligence services; strengthening the analysis departments.

The latest international developments have engendered complex challenges and imposed the diversification of the specific activities of the Foreign Intelligence Service in support of the vital interests of the Romanian society.

The diffuse, multidirectional, and unpredictable nature of the threats to Romanian political, economic, and general security objectives, and the dynamics of the global phenomena outline the necessity of adapting the tasks of the Service, while laying emphasis on: increasing the role and importance of the collection of anticipatory data and intelligence; resizing the structure and the tasks regarding asymmetric threats; diversifying the specific means and methods and cover stories; developing the activities concerning economic security; foreign counterespionage, protection of  the state secret.
 
The Strategy aims to turn the SIE into a modern, dynamic, effective, and flexible Service, capable of timely and competent response to the social command.

The goals are to build up the SIE as a fundamental component of the national security system; focus the SIE activity on the priority directions defined on the concepts of strategic planning (fighting international terrorism and organized crime; disrupting foreign espionage; providing protection; assessing political and economic developments; expanding foreign cooperation; resources); promoting Romania’s interests internationally, regionally, or in certain countries; promoting an accurate image of the Service within civil society.

Attaining the goals involves the allocation of various resources to an appropriate degree, and their utilization with maximum efficiency.

The main responsibilities of the Foreign Intelligence Service in this field are: to make best use of its own human, material and financial resources, to render simpler and more flexible all mechanisms for assessing, planning, and distributing those resources; and to promote intensive sectorial policies whose results live up to their priorities and expectations.

In point of structure, the new organization of the institution leaves the structural planning aside. It allows a process-oriented approach on intelligence activity, and helps create integrated assessment/control mechanisms and the conditions for shifting towards an offensive, pro-active, anticipatory attitude. In parallel, modern management mechanisms have been applied: a project-based activity, including among institutions; the institutional framework for cross-departmental dialogue and cooperation; delegated competences; participative management (working groups, think tanks); wide-scale application of scientific methods for validating decisions pertaining to human resources management; integrated assessment and control mechanisms; human resources management (modern procedures for recruitment, selection, training, and professional assessment).

In point of its goals and the specific mechanisms of attaining them, the SIE applies the principle of continuity and constant updating, by capitalizing on its previous experience in the field. The SIE brings its specific contribution to protecting, supporting, and promoting Romania’s interests, alongside all state bodies, within the unitary concept outlined in the National Security Strategy of Romania.