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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Helsinki European Council authorised the Portuguese presidency to establish the EU’s interim security and defence structures as from 1 March of this year.
These structures were established on this date. Their activities are currently being developed so that they can assume a more specific and practical form and in particular so that the definitive model which we believe could start to operate next year can be agreed. In parallel with the work on these practical aspects, a discussion is ongoing within the European Union on determining the mechanisms for participation both by EU Member States which are not members of NATO and by NATO countries which are not EU Member States. This discussion is occurring within the overall context of action on the Petersberg tasks specified in the Treaty of Amsterdam. The question which has arisen and which has also been raised by the Member – for which I thank you as it is my responsibility to chair the preparatory group of the Intergovernmental Conference – concerns the extent to which this issue may or may not fall within the scope of the IGC. It will only be placed on the IGC’s agenda if and when it is confirmed that amendments need to be made to the Treaty on European Union in order to bring these structures into practical operation. It is still not clear at this stage of our debate within the European Union whether or not amendments to the Treaty will be necessary. As soon as this becomes clear, we will announce this. The Portuguese Presidency will present a report to the Feira European Council in June giving an assessment of the state of progress and an opinion on whether or not these issues should be included within the IGC. If these are to be included, this would only be confirmed during the French Presidency."@en1
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