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The Agency has adequate mechanisms in place to mitigate risks and ensure uninterrupted operations, continuity, security and everyday protection of the Agency’s staff, assets and information. Corporate risk assessment includes all elements of ECHA Integrated Management System and all types of risks 2 . 

The Agency is integrating risk management into the annual planning and reporting cycle, embedding it in the decision – making process at all levels, using cost/risk-benefit analysis and other appropriate techniques at process and project level, aiming at higher risk tolerance where opportunities are pursued, and designing control activities in a cost-effective and efficient way, proportionate to the underlying risks 3 . 

## 3. Operations and operational structure 

## Component 3.1. Activity management 

Principles: Defining the activities, processes and their interactions, ensuring one-ECHA cooperation and alignment to the strategic priorities to ensure objectives are met, and allow for measurement of outcome and impact. 

## Characteristics 

The Agency defines its activities, processes and their interactions in alignment with its strategic priorities and objectives, aiming to clearly identify the outcomes, the expected performance and efficiency, as well as intermediate and long-term impact. 

The Agency ensures that its activities and processes are managed towards achieving effectiveness and efficiency, executed through one-ECHA contribution by relevant competencies and functions, and they deliver quality output according to ECHA possibilities and stakeholder needs and allow for efficiencies and synergies both internally and with external parties. 

ECHA aims at ensuring that its suppliers are managed in the most cost-effective and economic way in line with the applicable environmental and sustainability criteria. 

## Component 3.2. Information and data management 

Principles: Aiming at effective, efficient, integrated information, communication and data solutions 

## Characteristics 

The Agency is ensuring that its technology, information and data solutions are aligned to its strategy, including its data management strategy, are well integrated to support efficiency and automation of the Agency’s activities, while increasing the knowle dge base for more effective regulatory work, sharing information on safe use of chemicals, proactively making the data re-usable to target users, better leveraging the data for stakeholders and partners through interoperability, providing a “digital 

