- align human resources management to the best NATO practices and to consequences generated by the new security environment; - improve quality of life of military personnel by providing housing, improve medical care, provide efficient social dialogue, and harmonize legal framework on personnel compensation in accordance with social, economic, and national realities; - create, train, and use volunteer reservists and maintain elevated level of training for the mobilization of all structures. g) to ensure infrastructure: - standardize the infrastructure of same-type formations and units to ensure force lodging and training; - develop the infrastructure required for the deployment of allied forces and prepositioning of equipment of allied countries; - correlate military infrastructure with the missions, force structure, and development process of military capabilities; - provide facilities required for the readiness capacity and personnel recovery of own and/or allied forces; - provide host-nation support to foreign armed forces in transit, stationed, or undertaking operations on the territory of Romania; - joint and interagency use of training facilities and develop an urban warfare training range; - establish military bases and develop the housing infrastructure for military personnel. h) to achieve interoperability of forces: - continue implementation of essential NATO standards and extend their applicability to the entire force structure; - maintain level of interoperability of forces through participation in joint training and planning activities, organized in the framework provided by NATO and EU initiatives, and through affiliation process to NATO force structure; - correlate the process of standardization with procurement programs for the forces, and with the development and modernization of equipment and materiel. CHAPTER 5 - THE COMMAND AND FORCE STRUCTURE OF THE ROMANIAN ARMED FORCES The command structure ensures the leadership of the Romanian Armed Forces in peacetime, when a state of siege is instituted, a state of mobilization, and/or of war are declared. In peacetime, leadership is exercised by the constitutional authorities of the state on three levels – political, political-military, and military, as follows: - at the political level, leadership of national defense is exercised by the President of Romania, the Parliament of Romania, the Supreme Council of National Defense (SCND), and the Government of Romania; - at the political-military level, leadership of the Romanian Armed Forces is exercises by the Minister of National Defense; - at the military level, leadership of the force structure of the Romanian Armed Forces is exercised by the Chief of the General Staff/Chief of Defense. Upon institution of the state of siege, declaration of mobilization and/or war, leadership of military actions is exercised at the strategic level by the Commander of the National Military Command Center (CNMC), and at the operational level by the Joint Forces Command (CFI) and by the operational components/centers of NSS. Interagency relations are carried out through the implementation of the Concept of the Communications and Information System of the Armed Forces, which will allow the exchange of data and information in a comprehensive and secure manner, and the improvement of joint operating procedures. 14