The main objective for 2013 is for the EMN to continue to better inform EU and national policymakers, notably by providing up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information of relevance to policymakers as well as increasing the EMN's responsiveness to policymakers needs through addressing both immediate and longer-term requirements.

To achieve this objective, the following specific priorities for 2013 shall be:

• Respond to information needs of policymakers through the timely provision of relevant tinformation in an appropriate, concise format;
• Encourage greater use of the EMN as a platform for raising awareness and sharing knowledge of policy developments across the EU;
• To review the success of the new outputs/formats/structures introduced since 2012;
• Further develop networking at the national and European level, recognising the crosscutting nature of migration and asylum with other policy areas, and providing specific support to assist the EMN NCP in Croatia to participate fully in the EMN;
• Improve comparability of statistics and other information at EU-level, including continued development of the EMN Glossary and Thesaurus;
• Implement a re-designed public EMN website and Information Exchange System to better facilitate information provision, for policymakers and other practitioners in particular, as well as the wider public, and internally for EMN members;
• Increase further the visibility of the EMN through targeted communication and dissemination of its outputs in an appropriate format.

For detailed information on activities to be implemented by the EMN in 2013, please see the attached document.