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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1515/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2020/1515",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/1515 of 19 October 2020 establishing a European Security and Defence College, and repealing Decision (CFSP) 2016/2382",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1515",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Objectives",
  "text": "The ESDC shall have the following objectives:\n(a) to further enhance the common European security and defence culture within the Union and to promote the principles laid down in Article 21(1) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) outside the Union;\n(b) to promote a better understanding of CSDP as an essential part of CFSP;\n(c) to provide Union instances with knowledgeable personnel able to work efficiently on all CSDP matters within the wider context of CFSP;\n(d) to provide Member States' administrations and staff with knowledgeable personnel familiar with Union policies, institutions and procedures in the field of CSDP;\n(e) to provide CSDP Missions' and Operations' personnel with a common understanding of CSDP Missions' and Operations' functioning principles and a sense of common European identity;\n(f) to provide training and education responding to training and educational needs of CSDP Missions and Operations;\n(g) to support Union partnerships in the field of CSDP, in particular partnerships with those countries participating in CSDP missions;\n(h) to support civilian crisis management including in the field of conflict prevention, and establishing or preserving the conditions necessary for sustainable development;\n(i) to promote the European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers;\n(j) to promote PhD-level research in domains related to CSDP;\n(k) to provide Member States' and Union administrations with knowledgeable personnel familiar with Union policies, institutions, procedures and best practices in the field of cyber security and defence;\n(l) to help promote professional relations and contacts among training and education participants.\nWhere appropriate, attention shall be paid to ensuring consistency with other activities of the Union.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1515/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:07.177188+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}