Council Decision of 22 January 2001 on the establishment of the Military Staff of the European Union
Date: 2001-01-22
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU Military Staff, operation of the Institutions

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COUNCIL DECISION

of 22 January 2001

on the establishment of the Military Staff of the European Union

(2001/80/CFSP)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Article 3

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, in particular
Article 28(1) thereof,

All members of the Military Staff shall be nationals of Member
States of the European Union.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
in particular Article 207(2) thereof,
Community,

Article 4

Whereas:

(1)

In the framework of the strengthening of the common
foreign and security policy (CFSP) and in particular of
the common European policy on security and defence
provided for in Article 17 of the Treaty on European
Union, the European Council meeting in Nice on 7-11
December 2000 reached agreement on the establish-
ment of the Military Staff of the European Union, setting
out its mission and functions.

(2)

Following the guidelines of the European Council the
Military Staff should be made ready to start its work,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

1. Military personnel will be seconded from Member States
to the General Secretariat of the Council in order to form the
Military Staff of the European Union (EUMS).

The Military Staff will be part of the General Secretariat

2.
of the Council.

1. Members of the Military Staff shall be subject to rules
which will be established in a Council Decision.

2.
Until the entry into force of the Decision mentioned in
paragraph 1, Council Decision 2000/178/CFSP of 28 February
2000 on the rules applicable to national experts in the military
field on secondment to the General Secretariat of the Council
during the interim period (1) shall remain in force.

Article 5

This Decision shall take effect from the date of its adoption.

It shall apply as from a date established by the SG/HR upon
consultation of the PSC and of the iMB/Military Committee and
in principle before the end of June 2001.

Until the date of application of this Decision, the Director
General of the Military Staff (DGEUMS), who will take up its
functions as from 1 March 2001 (2), shall act as head of the
military experts seconded from Member States to the Council
Secretariat (3).

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal.

Article 6

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 22 January 2001.

The mission and functions of the Military Staff are defined in
Annex V of the Presidency's report approved by the Nice
European Council, which is reproduced in the Annex to this
Decision.

For the Council

The President

A. LINDH

(1) OJ L 57, 2.3.2000, p. 1.
(2) Council Decision of 22 December 2000.
(3) Council Decision 2000/145/CFSP of 14 February 2000 on the
secondment of national experts in the military field to the General
Secretariat of
the Council during an interim period (OJ L 49,
22.2.2000, p. 3).

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ANNEX

EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY STAFF ORGANISATION (EUMS)

1.

Introduction

At Helsinki, the EU Member States decided to establish within the Council, new permanent political and military
bodies enabling the EU to assume its responsibilities for the full range of conflict prevention and crisis management
tasks defined in the EU Treaty, the Petersberg tasks. As provided in the Helsinki report, the EUMS, ‘within the Council
structures provides military expertise and support to the CESDP, including the conduct of EU-led military crisis
management operations’.

For this purpose, the terms of reference of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS) are defined as follows:

2. Mission

The Military Staff is to perform ‘early warning, situation assessment and strategic planning for Petersberg tasks
including identification of European national and multinational forces’ and to implement policies and decisions as
directed by the European Union Military Committee (EUMC).

3. Role and tasks

— It is the source of the EU's military expertise.

— It assures the link between the EUMC on the one hand and the military resources available to the EU on the other,

and it provides military expertise to EU bodies as directed by the EUMC.

— It provides an early warning capability. It plans, assesses and makes recommendations regarding the concept of
crisis management and the general military strategy and implements the decisions and guidance of the EUMC.

— It supports the EUMC regarding situation assessment and military aspects of strategic planning (1), over the full
range of Petersberg tasks, for all cases of EU-led operations, whether or not the EU draws on NATO assets and
capabilities.

— It contributes to the process of elaboration, assessment and review of the capability goals taking into account the
need, for those Member States concerned, to ensure coherence with NATO's defence planning process (DPP) and
the planning and review process (PARP) of the partnership for peace (PfP) in accordance with agreed procedures.

— It has the responsibility to monitor, assess and make recommendations regarding the forces and capabilities made

available to the EU by the Member States, on training, exercises and interoperability.

4. Functions

— It performs three main operational functions: early warning, situation assessment and strategic planning.

— Under the direction of the EUMC it provides military expertise to EU bodies and, in particular, to the Secretary-

General/High Representative.

— It monitors potential crises by relying on appropriate national and multinational

intelligence capabilities.

— It supplies the Situation Centre with military information and receives its output.

— It carries out the military aspects of strategic advance planning for Petersberg missions.

— It identifies and lists European national and multinational forces for EU-led operations coordinating with NATO.

— It contributes to the development and preparation (including training and exercises) of national and multinational
forces made available by the Member States to the EU. The modalities of the relation with NATO are defined in
the relevant documents.

— It organises and coordinates the procedures with national and multinational HQs including those NATO HQs

available to the EU, ensuring, as far as possible, compatibility with NATO procedures.

(1) Preliminary definitions:

Strategic planning: planning activities that start as soon as a crisis emerges and end when the EU political authorities approve a
military strategic option or a set of military strategic options. The strategic process encompasses military situation assessment,
definition of a POL/MIL framework and development of military strategic options.
Military strategic option: a possible military action designed to achieve the POL/MIL objectives outlined in the POL/MIL framework. A
military strategic option will describe the outline military solution, the required resource and constraints and recommendations on
the choice of the operations commander and OHQ.

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— It programmes, plans, conducts and evaluates the military aspect of the EU's crisis management procedures,

including the exercising of EU/NATO procedures.

— It participates in the financial estimation of operations and exercises.

— It liaises with the national HQs and the multinational HQs of the multinational forces.

— It establishes permanent relations with NATO according to ‘EU/NATO Permanent arrangements’ and appropriate
relations with identified correspondents within the UN and OSCE, subject to an agreement from these organ-
isations.

(a) A d d i t i o n a l

f u n c t i o n s i n c r i s i s m a n a g e m e n t s i t u a t i o n s

— It requests and processes specific information from the intelligence organisations and other relevant informa-

tion from all available sources.

— It supports the EUMC in its contributions to Initial Planning Guidance and Planning Directives of the Political

and Security Committee (PSC).

— It develops and prioritises military strategic options as the basis for the military advice of the EUMC to the PSC

by:

— defining initial broad options;

— drawing as appropriate on planning support from external sources which will analyse and further develop

these options in more detail,

— evaluating the results of this more detailed work and commissioning any further work that might be

necessary,

— presenting an overall assessment, with an indication of priorities and recommendations as appropriate, to

the EUMC.

— It can also contribute to the non-military aspects of the military options.

— It identifies in coordination with national planning staffs and, as appropriate, NATO, the forces that might

participate in possible EU-led operations.

— It assists the operation commander in technical exchanges with third countries offering military contributions

to an EU-led operation, and in the preparation of the force generation conference.

— It continues to monitor crisis situations.

(b) A d d i t i o n a l

f u n c t i o n s d u r i n g o p e r a t i o n s

— The EUMS, acting under the direction of the EUMC, continuously monitors all the military aspects of
operations. It conducts strategic analysis in liaison with the designated operation commander to support the
EUMC in its advisory role to the PSC in charge of the strategic direction.

— In the light of political and operational developments, it provides new options to the EUMC as a basis for

EUMC's military advice to the PSC.

5. Organisation

— It works under the military direction of the EUMC to which it reports.

— The EUMS is a Council Secretariat department directly attached to the SG/HR;

it is composed of personnel
seconded from the Member States acting in an international capacity under the statute to be established by the
Council.

— EUMS is headed by the DGEUMS, a three-star flag officer, and works under the direction of the EUMC.

— In order to cope with the full spectrum of Petersberg tasks, whether or not the EU has recourse to NATO

resources, the EUMS is organised as in Annex ‘A’.

— In crisis management situations or exercises, the EUMS could set up Crisis Action Teams (CAT), drawing upon its
own expertise, manpower and infrastructure. In addition, it could, if necessary, draw upon outside manpower for
temporary augmentation to be requested from the EU Member States by the EUMC.

6. Relations with third countries

— The relations between the EUMS and the non-EU European NATO members and other countries, which are
candidates for accession to the EU will be defined in the document on the relations of the EU with third countries.

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ANNEX A

OUTLINE ORGANISATION OF EUMS

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ABBREVIATIONS

A

ADMIN

Administration Branch

C

CEUMC

Chairman of the European Union Military Committee

CIO

CIS

CIMIC and Information Operations Branch

Communications and Information Systems Division

CMC SPT

Support to Chairman of the European Union Military Committee

CON

Concepts Branch

CRM/COP

Crisis Management/Current Operations Branch

D

DDG/COS

Deputy Director General and Chief of Staff of the European Union Military Staff

DGEUMS

Director General of the European Union Military Staff

E

EUMC

EUMS

EXE

European Union Military Committee

European Union Military Staff

Exercises Branch

EX OFFICE

Executive Office

F

FOR

I

INT

Force Preparedness Branch

Intelligence Division

INT POL

Intelligence Policy Branch

ITS

L

LEGAL

LOG

Information Technology and Security Branch

Legal Adviser

Logistics Branch

LOG/RES

Logistics and Resources Division

O

OPS/EXE

Operations and Exercises Division

P

PERS

POL

POL/PLS

POL/REQ

PRD

R

REQ

Personal Staff

Policy Branch

Policy and Plans Division

Policy and Requirements Branch

Production Branch

Requirements Branch

RES/SPT

Resources Support Branch