Berlin Plus agreement
The Berlin Plus agreement is the short title of a comprehensive package of agreements made between NATO and the EU on 16 December 2002.
[1] These agreements were based on conclusions of NATO's 1999 Washington summit, sometimes referred to as the "CJTF mechanism" (combined joint task force),[2] and allowed the EU to draw on some of NATO's military assets in its own peacekeeping operations.
[3] The Berlin Plus agreement has seven major parts:[1][4] 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.
[4] To date, the EU has conducted two operations with the support of NATO:
EU member only
NATO member only
member of both