WRITTEN QUESTION P-0635/04 by W.G. van Velzen (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Creation of a European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
Date: 2004-02-25
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU Official Journal, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, dissemination of EU information, seat of institution

3.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 84 E/439

As far as child care provisions are concerned, there are currently over 360 children on the waiting list for
the nurseries run by the Commission. Current estimates are that enlargement of the Union will increase
that figure to around 770. At present it is therefore difficult to envisage the enrolment of any children
other than those of officials. The Commission has expanded its own nursery facilities, partly because of a
lack of sufficient suitable capacity in Brussels generally. Making nursery places available is also a specified
objective of the welfare dimension of Commission reform and of its commitment to provide working
conditions for all officials that advance the equality of opportunity.

(1) COM(2003) 755 final.
(2) Ombudsplan Bru/Eur Médiateur (cid:1) Aries consultants. Study commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office and the

Office of the President of the Brussels Region.

(2004/C 84 E/0511)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0635/04

by W.G. van Velzen (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(25 February 2004)

Subject: Creation of a European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)

Has the Commission already started preparatory work on the early establishment of a European Network
and Information Security Agency and, if so, what is involved?

Can the Commission say when, at the earliest, the Agency will be operational?

Where will the Agency finally be established?

When will the decision to establish the Agency be published in the Official Journal?

Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission

(19 March 2004)

The Commission is pleased to confirm that preparatory works for the establishment of the European
Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) are well underway. In fact, the Commission has already
prepared and circulated among all Member States’ and Accession Countries’ Permanent Representations the
draft vacancy notice for the post of the Agency’s Executive Director, which will be published shortly after
adoption of the Regulation.

Furthermore, the Commission has already invited, through the Permanent Representations, Member States
and Accession Countries to nominate their representatives and alternates on the Agency’s Management
Board. The nominations are expected to take place by the end of March 2004.

The Commission is also developing the ENISA website (http://www.enisa.eu.int) which will be available
online as soon as the Regulation enters into force, i.e. on the day following its publication in the Official
Journal.

The Commission expects the Agency to be operational shortly after the nomination of its Director, which
is planned just before the end of July 2004.

Concerning the future location of the Agency, the Director-General of Directorate-General Information
Society (DG INFSO) has been informed by Mr Manolis Stratakis, Deputy-Minister of Transport and
Communications of Greece, that the Greek Government has decided to host ENISA at Heraklion, on the
island of Crete.

Finally, as regards the publication of the Regulation in the Official Journal, the Commission is pleased to
inform the Honourable Member that the signature of the Regulation by the President of the Parliament is
foreseen on 10 March 2004 and that publication of the Regulation in the Official Journal will occur, at the
latest, 10 working days after its reception at the Publications Office.