ANNEX U.K. ACCREDITATION CRITERIAStandard list of areas and related requirements as referred to in Article 11(2)

2. Planning/risk management (planning of interventions) U.K.

(a)

Risk identification, assessment and management

• ensuring that risks are identified and management, in particular that adequate control resources are applied in all areas, in function of the significance of different risks they mitigate.

(b)

Objective setting and allocation of resources against objectives

• ensuring that appropriate (and measurable) objectives at output and impact level are established at all levels and understood throughout the organisation;

• ensuring that resources are appropriately allocated against those objectives respecting transparent sound financial management principles;

• ensuring that responsibility for those objectives is clear.

(c)

Planning of the implementation process

• ensuring clear planning of steps needed to deliver objectives — including timing and responsibility for each step, and critical path analyses where necessary.