HANDBOOK ON CSDP
3.1. HOW TO PLAN AND LAUNCH A CSDP MISSION OR OPERATION by Fernando Moreno
States. Decisions relating to these missions are to be adopted by the Council acting unanimously on a proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy or an initiative from a Member State. In order to make this a reality the EU adopted crisis management procedures (‘Suggestions for crisis management procedures for CSDP crisis management operations’). These procedures were endorsed by the Political and Security Committee (PSC) in June 2013 following a comprehensive review of the original ‘Suggestions for procedures for coherent, comprehensive EU Crisis Management’ dated July 2003. The 2013 review took into account both lessons learnt over the first decade of the ESDP/CSDP
European Union
Under the Lisbon Treaty, the purpose of the common security and defence policy (CSDP) is to provide the Union with an operational capacity to conduct missions outside the Union for peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter. These missions include joint disarmament operations, humanitarian and rescue tasks, military advice and assistance tasks, conflict prevention and peacekeeping tasks, and the tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peace-making and post-conflict stabilisation. The civilian and military capabilities required to conduct these missions are to be provided by the Member
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