Assembly/AU/Dec.635(XXVIII) Annex Page 1 ANNEX TO ASSEMBLY DECISION ON THE OUTCOME OF THE RETREAT OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE AFRICAN UNION ON INSTITUTIONAL REFORM OF THE AFRICAN UNION A. B. On focus on key priorities with continental scope: i) The African Union should focus on a fewer number of priority areas, which are by nature continental in scope, such as political affairs, peace and security, economic integration (including the Continental Free Trade Area), and Africa’s global representation and voice; ii) There should be a clear division of labour and effective collaboration between the African Union, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), the Member States, and other continental institutions, in line with the principle of subsidiarity. On realigning African Union institutions in order to deliver against those priorities i) The Commission’s structures should be re-evaluated to ensure that they have the right size and capabilities to deliver on the agreed priorities; ii) The Commission’s senior leadership team should be lean and performance-oriented; iii) NEPAD should be fully integrated into the Commission as the African Union’s development agency, aligned with the agreed priorities and underpinned by an enhanced results-monitoring framework; iv) The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) should be strengthened to track implementation and oversee monitoring and evaluation in key governance areas of the continent; v) The roles and functions of the African Union judicial organs and the Pan-African Parliament should be reviewed and clarified, and their progress to date assessed; vi) The Peace and Security Council (PSC) should be reformed to ensure that it meets the ambition foreseen in its Protocol, by strengthening its working methods and its role in conflict prevention and crisis management; vii) The Permanent Representatives Committee’s (PRC) Rules of Procedures should be reviewed and be in line with the mandate provided for in the Constitutive Act of the African Union. The PRC should facilitate communication between the African Union and 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, 30 - 31 January 2017, Addis Ababa