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## Component 1.5 Stakeholders and partners engagement 

Principles: Maintaining an open and transparent, two- way dialogue with the Agency’s regulatory partners and stakeholders, including for effective on-boarding of new tasks 

ECHA’s engagement with regulatory partners and stakeholders is based on the Agency’s corporate values and their involvement in the Agency’s operations, enhanced through an effective communication strategy. 

ECHA’s internal and external communication is consistent, cost -effective and relevant to the audience being targeted to ensure internal and external partners and stakeholders can both obtain and provide sufficient and timely information for the performance of their responsibilities. 

The Agency is monitoring and adjusting its stakeholders’ and partners’ policy in line with its evolving role aiming for synergies and consistency between its legislations, new and existing tasks, where common objectives and shared tasks are becoming more frequent between ECHA and its external stakeholders and partners. 

## 2. Strategy, planning and risk management 

## Component 2.1. Priorities planning and resource allocation 

Principles: Demonstrating commitment to objectives, priorities and respective steering including activity-based resource allocation. 

## Characteristics 

The Agency’s management under the supervision of the Management Board is defining ECHA’s strategic and operational priorities, both positive and negative, and their implementation in view of the set political priorities and values of the European Union, as well as ECHA’s strategy, mission, vision and values. 

The Senior management is defining the strategic and annual priorities clearly in a way that makes it possible to measure their outcome and impact, identify the risks related to them and cascade them to all levels of the organisation. 

The Agency is ensuring that human and financial resources are allocated based on the Agency’s strategic priorities, activities and objectives in line with the principles of effectiveness, efficiency and economy. 

## Component 2.2. Risk management 

Principles: Identifying and analysing risks and significant changes, uncovering opportunities and using cost-risk-benefit analysis to remove unnecessary controls. 

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