A meeting organized by Romanian Trade Registry and EURISC Foundation. The need to have an European system to respond to crisis, energy, security, critical infrastructures protection, a. o. We should have common platforms for cooperation, link between business of security and security for business. These networks are very important at the level of EU.

In one of the latest reunions, it was noticed that the focus was on the concept of “trust”. We have to build around this concept, we need this “trust” especially in times of crisis. The main concern is no longer the terrorism but the financial global crisis and its geopolitical implications!

The exploitation of the open sources under the present circumstances should be used by national centers from where the intelligence services should extract the information they need a rigorous selection of information from open sources.

Multi-source analysis includes services like: intelligence strategic ones, competitive intelligence, the management of the knowledge within an organization and others, governmental and private contracted in the Natural Intelligence Community. The current crisis calls for a systemic approach of the equation: security – intelligence services. We should connect the national security to the concepts of security of a community and the individual security. The Civil society and the business field created their own non-governmental structures, foundations, public information services, that achieve the elements of security needed by the groups and individuals. The private environment should be implied in the field of security, the citizens should benefit of these services. After 9/11 new threats appeared and new national security problems have arisen.

An emphasis on preventing the development of organized in non-organized crime structures in non-governmental security and intelligence.

The need of a institutional mechanism able to prevent and control the misuse of intelligence by political circles and illicit groups of private interests; the setting up of a governmental body in charge with open sources, working in a network with all governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in.

It is evident that the operational intelligence faces threats and problems but in the same time it has current capabilities in order to address new security threats. The threats come from either excessive regulation (the existence of bottlenecks in information flow) or none/minimal regulation at lower levels (e.g. lack of measures to supervise internet cafés). In order to facilitate the work of operational intelligence a balanced regulatory framework is needed, which should include studies on the need to define a new European Regulatory Framework and a sustainable approach to security problems.