In this section:

• the notion of intelligence, the main operational tools available to the AISE and the AISI, and functional guarantees which safeguard intelligence agents
• the cooperation between intelligence organizations (DIS, AISE and AISI) and the armed forces, the police forces, other State administrative bodies, and private and public research institutions
• the relations with judicial authorities
  
• the scrutiny of Parliament, the Court of Auditors and internal administrative audit bodies