The Berlin Plus agreement is the short title of a comprehensive package of agreements made between NATO and the EU on 16 December 2002. These agreements were based on conclusions of NATO's 1999 Washington summit, sometimes referred to as the "CJTF mechanism" (combined joint task force), and allowed the EU to draw on some of NATO's military assets in its own peacekeeping operations.

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The Berlin Plus agreement has seven major parts: This comprehensive framework for NATO-EU relations was concluded on March 17, 2003 by the exchange of letters by High Representative Javier Solana and the then-Secretary General of NATO Lord Robertson.

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Procedures

Operations

To date, the EU has conducted two operations with the support of NATO: