Notes:
• The flowchart is intended to be a tool to facilitate understanding and use of the present Crisis
Management Procedures (CMP) by reflecting the key decision instances contained therein. It
focuses on the internal EU decision-making process and in particular on key moments (i.e.
either decisions or presentation of ‘products’) leading up to the approval of OPLANs and
equivalent documents and the operation launch by Council (end of Phase 4).
• Other elements of the CMP may not be reflected in the present flowchart but clearly remain
integral to crisis management. These include activities that are ongoing throughout the
procedures, including for example assessments by the Policy Unit and the Joint SITCEN,
information strategy activities, or regular information exchanges. Consultations or interactions
with third parties, which take place at points in the procedures that can vary depending on the
particular crisis, are not reflected.
• The processes within the CMP (and indicated in the flowchart) are indicative; not all will
necessarily be taken during a particular crisis (e.g. an operation may include exclusively
military or exclusively civilian instruments). Many of the processes included in the CMP, such
as the development of a crisis management concept (CMC), are iterative in nature.
• It is understood that there is input to Council bodies and decision-making procedures from
Council Secretariat and Commission services throughout the procedures and at all levels. Co-
ordination between services is also an ongoing process. The grey backgrounds in the flowchart
indicate stages at which there is a heightened co-ordination, i.e. to ensure the coherence of
planning products.
• The arrows in the flowchart reflect a tasking or the forwarding of a ‘product’ and are not
intended to reflect hierarchical relationships.
• The flowchart is based on the “Suggestions for procedures for coherent, comprehensive EU
crisis management” (CMP) presently under discussion within the Politico-Military Group.
Further revisions to the CMP will be taken into account.
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Phase 1 - Routine Phase
Phase 2 - Crisis Build-up / Elaboration of the draft CMC
Various actors
Information, assessments, early
warning, policy options papers,
civilian and military advice
PSC
EU action considered appropriate,
guidance for draft CMC (25)
SG/HR and EC
Presentation of draft CMC (28)
PSC
Request for civilian
Request for military
advice (28)
advice (28)
CIVCOM
EUMC
Can be iterative
process
Advice on civilian aspects (30)
Advice on military aspects (29)
PSC
Finalisation of draft CMC, opinion (31)
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Phase 3 - Approval of the CMC
Approval of CMC (36)
Guidance for civilian instruments,
Request for issuance of MSOD (37)
including police (37)
EUMC
EC
CGS (incl.
Issuance of MSOD (40)
Police
Unit/national
experts/Coord.
CGS (EUMS)
Mechanism)
Develop PSOs/other CSOs (46,47)
Develop/prioritise MSO(s) (43)
Steps can be
subject to
iterative process
CIVCOM
EUMC
Eval./advice on PSOs/other CSOs (49)
Evaluation/advice on MSO(s) (48)
Presentation of
E
C civilian
m easures (50)
Evaluation and draft decision on preferred
Evaluation and draft decision on preferred
PSO and other CSOs (50)
MSO (50)
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Phase 4 - Formal decision to take action
Decision to take action (54)
Selection of PSO and other CSOs (54)
Selection of MSO, incl. chain of command (54)
Request for police/other civilian
Issuance of guidance (56)
operational planning (59, 60)
EC
EUMC
CGS (incl.
CGS (EUMS)
Police
Unit/national
Draft IMD (56)
experts/Coord.
Mechanism)
PSC (approval of IMD)
Release of IMD (56)
OpCdr
Draft police CONOPS, SOR/other civ. docs. (59, 60)
Draft military CONOPS, SOR (57)
CIVCOM
EUMC
Advice/recommendation on draft
Advice/recomm. on draft CONOPS (62)
police CONOPS/equiv. civ. docs (63)
Operat.
planning
at strat.
level
Approval of military and police CONOPS, equiv. civ. docs (64, 65)
E
C
CGS (incl.
CGS (EUMS)
Police Unit)
Pol HoM/Civ HoMs
OpCdr
Production of draft OPLAN/other civ. docs (74, 75)
Preparation of draft OPLAN (73)
CIVCOM
EUMC
Advice/recomm. on OPLAN/other civ. docs. (77)
Advice/recomm. on OPLAN (76)
Draft police OPLAN/other civ. docs. (78)
Draft military OPLAN (78)
Operation launch (79)
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