Achievements
- The Petersberg tasks, agreed by WEU Ministers in 1992, defined the scope of CSDP crisis-management activities;
- the former WEU Satellite Centre in Torrejón/Spain now provided the EU with a degree of autonomy in analysing satellite imagery for intelligence;
- the WEU Institute for Security Studies (EU) in Paris has been transferred to the EU;
- Defence Ministers participate in the Council’s activities;
- increasing Europeanisation of NATO;
- recognition of the need for a European chain of command;
- the handbook on European military standards and procedures, given as a reference to the EU Military Staff;
- Europe-wide cooperation on defence equipment and in particular the creation of the European Defence Agency, which has absorbed the functions of the Western European Armaments Group (WEAG) and the Western European Armaments Organisation (WEAO).
All the above achievements are the direct result of WEU’s past experience and of the political input and impetus generated by national parliamentarians working together in the Assembly.
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