Petersberg Tasks

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The Petersberg Tasks are a set of crisis-management and peacekeeping missions defined for European security and defense cooperation, outlining military and humanitarian roles such as rescue, peacekeeping, and peacemaking operations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf European security and defence concept
component of the Common Security and Defence Policy
crisis-management mandate
adoptedAt Petersberg near Bonn
surface form: Petersberg, Germany
adoptedBy Western European Union Council of Ministers
adoptedOn 19 June 1992
appliesTo EU-led operations
European Union
Western European Union
operations using national or multinational forces made available by member states
codifiedIn Article 17 of the Treaty on European Union (pre-Lisbon)
Treaty on European Union
surface form: Article 43 of the Treaty on European Union (post-Lisbon)
country European Union
defines humanitarian roles for crisis management
military roles for crisis management
includes conflict prevention tasks
humanitarian and rescue tasks
peacekeeping tasks
peacemaking operations
post-conflict stabilisation tasks
tasks of combat forces in crisis management
influenced Common Security and Defence Policy
surface form: EU crisis-management doctrine

development of EU military operations
involves civilian crisis-management instruments
deployment of combat forces
language English
French
German
laterIntegratedInto EU Treaties
surface form: European Union treaties

Treaty of Amsterdam
legalBasis Petersberg Declaration
namedAfter Petersberg near Bonn
surface form: Petersberg near Bonn, Germany
objective crisis management
humanitarian assistance
peacekeeping
peacemaking
partOf European security and defence cooperation
region Europe
relatedTo Common Foreign and Security Policy
Common Security and Defence Policy
scope operations outside EU territory
operations using military and civilian means
status in force

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Petersberg Declaration defines Petersberg Tasks
this entity surface form: Petersberg tasks
Petersberg Declaration hasPart Petersberg Tasks
this entity surface form: Petersberg tasks
Western European Union notableDocument Petersberg Tasks