defining appropriate missions, structures and means, covering in
particular:
-WEU planning cell;
- closer military co-operation complementary to the Alliance in
particular in the fields of logistics, transport, training and strategic
surveillance;
- meetings of WEU Chiefs of Defence Staff;
- military units answerable to WEU.
Other proposals will be examined further including:
- enhanced co-operation in the field of armaments with the aim of
creating a European armaments agency;
-development of the WEU Institute into a European Security and
Defence Academy.
Arrangements aimed at giving WEU a stronger operational role will be
fully compatible with the military dispositions necessary to ensure the
collective defence of all Allies.
D. Other measures
6. As a consequence of the measures set out above, and in order to
facilitate the strengthening of WEU's role, the seat of the WEU Council
and Secretariat will be transferred to Brussels.
7. Representation of the WEU Council must be such that the Council is
able to exercise its functions continuously in accordance with Article
VIII of the modified Brussels Treaty. Member States may draw on a
double-hatting formula, to be worked out, consisting of their
representatives to the Alliance and to the European Union.
8. WEU notes that, in accordance with the provisions of Article J.4(6)
concerning the common foreign and security policy of the Treaty on
European Union, the Union will decide to review the provisions of this
Article with a view to furthering the objective to be set by it in
accordance with the procedure defined. The WEU will re-examine the
present provisions in 1996. This re-examination will take account of
the progress and experience acquired and will extend to relations
between WEU and the Atlantic Alliance.
II. DECLARATION
by Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland which are members of the Western European Union.
"The Member States of WEU welcome the development of the
European security and defence identity. They are determined, taking
into account the role of WEU as the defence component of the
European Union and as the means to strengthen the European pillar of
the Atlantic Alliance, to put the relationship between WEU and the
other European States on a new basis for the sake of stability and
security in Europe. In this spirit, they propose the following:
States