Council Joint Action 2008/485/CFSP of 23 June 2008 amending and extending Joint Action 2007/405/CFSP on the European Union police mission undertaken in the framework of reform of the security sector (SSR) and its interface with the system of justice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (EUPOL RD Congo)
Date: 2008-06-23
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Democratic Republic of the Congo, operation of the Institutions, police, police cooperation, public safety, the EU's international role

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III

(Acts adopted under the EU Treaty)

ACTS ADOPTED UNDER TITLE V OF THE EU TREATY

COUNCIL JOINT ACTION 2008/485/CFSP

of 23 June 2008

amending and extending Joint Action 2007/405/CFSP on the European Union police mission
undertaken in the framework of reform of the security sector (SSR) and its interface with the
system of justice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (EUPOL RD Congo)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in
particular Article 14 thereof,

Whereas:

(5)

(6)

A new financial reference amount should be provided in
order to cover the expenditure relating to the mission for
the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.

The mandate of the mission is being carried out in a
security context
is liable to deteriorate and to
undermine the objectives of the Common Foreign and
Security Policy (CFSP) as defined in Article 11 of the
Treaty,

that

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On
the
June
Joint Action 2007/405/CFSP (1)
ending on 30 June 2008.

2007

Council

adopted
for an initial period

HAS ADOPTED THIS JOINT ACTION:

Following consultation with the Congolese authorities
it appears necessary to
and other parties concerned,
extend the mission for one year.

Joint Action 2007/405/CFSP is hereby amended as follows:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

The tasks of EUPOL RD Congo should also include the
provision of assistance to the Police Nationale Congolaise in
the areas of Border Police and the Audit Police Service.
Furthermore, the mission should contribute to the police,
gender, human rights and children and armed conflict
aspects of the stabilisation process in the east of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and facilitate
the linkage and harmonisation of those efforts with the
should be
national process of police reform. That
for two
achieved in particular by providing support
to
programmes
implement
on
23 January 2008 by the government of the DRC and
various armed groups operating in the Kivus, namely the
Programme Amani and the Plan de Stabilisation de l'Est,
both of which include police components.

that have been devised in order
in Goma

agreements

signed

the

(4)

In this connection, EUPOL RD Congo should also be
deployed in the eastern part of the DRC taking particular
account of security issues, gender-based violence, children
in armed conflicts and international coordination.

1.

in Article 2(1) the following indent shall be added:

‘— contribute to the police as well as to the gender, human
rights and children and armed conflict aspects of the
peace process in the eastern DRC and especially to its
linkage to the reform process of the PNC.’;

2. Article 3 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

Structure of the mission and deployment zone

The mission shall have headquarters (HQ) in Kinshasa

1.
consisting of:

(1) OJ L 151, 13.6.2007, p. 46.

Joint Action as amended by Joint

Action 2008/38/CFSP (OJ L 9, 12.1.2008, p. 18).

(a)

the Head of Mission;

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(b) a team of police advisers at strategic level;

(c) a team of police advisers at operational level;

(d) a team of legal advisers at strategic and operational level;

(e) administrative support.

2.
The mission shall have a permanent presence in Goma
and Bukavu, in the eastern part of the DRC, so as to deliver
assistance and expertise to the stabilisation process in the
eastern DRC.

3.

The operational breakdown of tasks shall be as follows:

(a) experts forming an integral part of the various working
parties on police reform, and advisers assigned to the key
organisational and decision-making posts of the CSRP
planned by the Congolese authorities;

(b) experts assigned to the PNC, particularly in key posts,
and assigned to mentor the criminal police and the
police responsible for the maintenance of law and order;

(c)

justice interface in the field of criminal law in order to
add to activities in the police field an interface with
criminal justice and follow up important aspects of the
reform of criminal
including in the case of
military criminal law;

justice,

(d) expertise aimed at contributing to the horizontal aspects

of SSR;

(e) experts assigned to the PNC, particularly in key posts,
and assigned to mentor the Border Police and Audit
Police Service;

(f) experts assigned to the police as well as to the gender,
human rights and children and armed conflict aspects of
the stabilisation process in the east, and its linkage to the
national police reform process.

the territory of

The deployment zone shall be Kinshasa, Goma and
4.
Bukavu. Given the geographical implications of the mission
throughout
the
mission statement, movement of experts and their presence
in other locations in the provinces could prove necessary, on
the instructions of the Head of Mission or of any person so
authorised by the Head of Mission and taking due account of
the security situation.’;

the DRC, as a result of

3. Article 9(1) shall be replaced by the following:

‘1.
The financial reference amount intended to cover the
expenditure relating to the mission for the period from
1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008 shall be EUR 5 500 000.

The financial reference amount intended to cover the expen-
diture
the period from
1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009 shall be EUR 6 920 000.’;

relating to the mission for

4. Article 15 shall be deleted;

5. the second subparagraph of Article 16 shall be replaced by

the following:

‘It shall apply until 30 June 2009.’

Article 2

This Joint Action shall enter into force on the date of
adoption.

its

Article 3

This Joint Action shall be published in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Done at Luxembourg, 23 June 2008.

For the Council
The President

I. JARC