4 The Austrian National Council Resolution of 3 July 2013 (on a new security strategy for Austria) The Austrian Federal Government is asked to shape its security policy so as to reflect the following principles: 4.1 General recommendations Austria’s security policy shall be shaped according to the following general principles: 1. The Comprehensive Security Provision concept shall be implemented in a coordinated manner and further developed so as to take into account particularly current developments. Partial strategies shall be evaluated and adapted on an ongoing basis. The assessment of the security situation also needs to be continually updated and developed on the basis of a collective national process of security analysis and planning. 2. Drawing up a collective national plan for the enhancement of Austria’s resilience (restoring the proper functioning of the state and society in the aftermath of crises) and the protection of Austria’s critical infrastructures. 3. Threats from state and non-state actors, both in and from cyber space, are constantly rising. Since the importance of cyber security is increasing, measures aimed at improving the security of computer systems and the internet shall, therefore, be intensified. The Austrian Cyber Security Strategy, adopted on 20 March 2013, must be implemented and updated regularly in light of the developments. 4. Taking into account the interaction between security and development and the implementation of the Strategic Guidelines on Security and Development, which recommend a collective national approach to conflict prevention, crisis management, peace-building and establishing national structures in order to achieve comprehensive human security within the framework of sustainable local structures and institutions. 5. In order to ensure that the cooperation between civil and military elements is improved and that resources are used efficiently and that the effectiveness and visibility of Austria’s contributions abroad are increased as well as in order to implement Austria’s strategic interests abroad, the elaboration and implementation of a national Foreign Deployment Concept shall be expedited. 6. Existing coordination structures and processes shall be brought up to date and adapted to ensure their functioning with a view to a comprehensive approach to security (“whole of government”, “whole of nation”). 7. Multi-agency national exercises must be carried out at regular intervals, so as to evaluate and develop existing concepts, procedures, institutions and instruments. The level of interministerial participation in international crisis management exercises shall be intensified. 8. The level of cooperation and coordination between the ministries in planning, implementing and assessing security-relevant measures, both in Austria and abroad, on the basis of a collective national assessment of the situation, shall be increased with a view to networked security structures 9. The cooperation among all security policy actors in analysing and evaluating securityrelevant situations and implementing the resulting measures, both in Austria and abroad, 16