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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2001-80/annex/division-4",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2001/80",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 22 January 2001 on the establishment of the Military Staff of the European Union (2001/80/CFSP)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2001-80",
  "path": "annex/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Tasks",
  "text": "It provides SG/HR and EU bodies with military expertise, under the direction of the EUMC.\nIt monitors potential crises by relying on appropriate national and multinational intelligence capabilities.\nIt collaborates with the Joint Situation Centre in the field of information exchange in accordance with the arrangement on the Single Intelligence Analysis Capacity.\nIt carries out military advance planning at the strategic level.\nIt conducts early planning in sufficient detail, inter alia, to allow Member States to assess their potential force contributions and for the EUMS to provide appropriate expertise along the decision-making process.\nIt identifies and lists European national and multinational forces for EU-led operations coordinating with NATO.\nIt 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 relationship with NATO are defined in the relevant documents.\nIt 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.\nIt contributes to the military aspects of the ESDP dimension of the fight against terrorism.\nIt contributes to the development of concepts, doctrine, plans and procedures for the use of military assets and capabilities for natural or man-made disaster consequence management operations.\nIt programmes, plans, conducts and evaluates the military aspects of the EU's crisis management procedures, including the exercising of EU/NATO procedures.\nIt participates in the financial estimation of operations and exercises.\nIt liaises with the national HQs and the multinational HQs of the multinational forces.\nIt establishes permanent relations with NATO according to ‘ EU/NATO permanent arrangements ’ .\nIt hosts a NATO Liaison Team at the EUMS and it maintains an EU Cell at SHAPE in accordance with ESDP Presidency Report adopted by the Council on 13 December 2004 .\nIt establishes appropriate relations with identified correspondents within the UN as well as other international organisations, including the OSCE and the AU, subject to an agreement from these organisations.\nIt contributes to the necessary comprehensive lessons learned process.\nIt undertakes strategic contingency planning at the initiative of the SG/HR or the PSC.\nIt contributes to the development of a body of doctrine/concepts, learning lessons from civilian/military operations and exercises.\nIt prepares concepts and procedures for the EU Ops Centre and ensures the availability and readiness of the manpower, facilities and equipment of the operations centre for operations, exercises and training.\nIt maintains, updates and replaces the equipment of the EU Ops Centre and maintains the premises.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Decision 2008/298/CFSP of 7 April 2008 amending Decision 2001/80/CFSP on the establishment of the Military Staff of the European Union."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2001/80/annex/division/4",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}