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The major changes to the organisation chart and management of the EP are summarised in the table below: Table 12 Summary of restructuring changes in the General Secretariat in 2010 DG Restructuring and modernisation DG PRES The Directorate for Presidency Services and the Directorate for Resources were set up in May 2010 with a view to separating financial operations from the rest of the DG’s work. The Finance Unit is now responsible for all matters relating to financial initiation and ex ante verification. Planning, contract management and procurement and tendering procedures have been centralised within the Directorate for Resources. DG IPOL and EXPO Resource Directorates have been introduced in order to further professionalise management of personnel, finance and IT. DG COMM The Resource Directorate was created by Bureau decision on 19 April. This Directorate, comprising three units (Finances, Personnel and IT) became operational as of 1 May 2010 In November 2010 a new Performance and Strategic Management Unit was set up, attached directly to the Director General, responsible for the monitoring, measurement and reporting activities of the DG. The European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, which is administratively part of Directorate B, was officially opened in April 2010. In March 2010 DG COMM took over administrative and financial responsibility for the House of European History. Selection procedures for the first wave of staff have been completed and the first members of staff were appointed as of November 2010. DG INLO To enable Parliament to meet its obligations as owner and tenant of the buildings it occupies, particularly at the three places of work and in the various Member States, a plan for restructuring and increasing human resources in DG INLO was approved in 2009. This is to be achieved over three years from 2010 by creating a new administrative structure, which may be summed up as follows: — strengthening and reorganising the Directorate for Infrastructure by creating: three units for the management and maintenance of buildings at each of the three places of work; two units, in Brussels and Luxembourg, to manage current and future projects, and a General Coordination Unit for infrastructure, — setting up three central units: a Budgetary Planning, Execution and Control Unit, a Contracts and Procurement Unit and a General Coordination Unit, — a staffing increase for and reorganisation of the Directorate for Logistics. The restructuring began in February 2010 and will continue through the 2011 and 2012 financial years. DG TRAD — The Terminology Service was upgraded to a unit. — From mid-September the new Croatian Unit was set up and commenced work on the translation of key EP documents. DG INTE Three new units (Interpreter Training and Contacts with Universities, Communication — Interinstitutional & International Cooperation, Total Quality Management) have been created and three new helpdesks within the Programming Unit are in the process of being set up. Legal Service The Legal Service was restructured, with the number of units in each directorate being increased from two to three as from 15 February 2010. A new breakdown of responsibilities among the three units in the Directorate for Institutional and Parliamentary Affairs was introduced on 1 October 2010. Services attached directly to the Secretary General A position of Risk Manager has been created in June 2010. The mission and framework for the newly established Risk Management Service are examined in depth on the basis of internationally accepted standards and documentation and the risk management rules and practices applied in the European Commission.