4.1.1. The objectives of reorganisations

The Communication establishes the following objectives for reorganisations:

• The overarching objective is to improve the Commission’s overall organisational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Other objectives concern increasing transparency of decision-making, ensuring a global view for the College, coherence with its strategic planning and resource allocation decisions, and simplification of administrative processes.

It makes a clear linkage to change, arguing that the Commission is operating in a dynamic environment with frequent changes. To be effective, the Commission as a whole as well as its individual DGs and Services must be able to adapt organisational structures and management teams to the changing policy priorities set by the College, while fulfilling efficiently the obligations laid down in the Treaty, international agreements and secondary legislation. The organisational structures must at any given moment reflect the Commission’s political and operational priorities.

Structure is one key element in the Commission’s organisational design, alongside other elements such as culture and how people learn. Revision of the organisation chart could be prompted by any of the following grounds:

• To adapt to changes in the priorities or tasks set by the Commission for the DG when it becomes obvious that they cannot be optimally achieved with the existing structures;
• To improve the efficiency of the structural set-up of a DG once it has been shown that maintaining the organisation chart as it stands is a hindrance to this objective.