European Union Committee - Eleventh Report
The EU's External Action Service

Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 12 March 2013.


Contents


Terms of Reference

Summary

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The new organisation

Setting up the EEAS

The High Representative role

The deputies question

The budget

Box 1: EEAS Institutional Budget

The new delegations

Location

Operation and roles

Box 2: EU Delegation to the African Union, Addis Ababa

Box 3: EEAS Delegation to Brazil

Cost savings and co-location

Management and budgets

Consular services

Staffing

Special Representatives

Accountability and relations with Parliaments

Chapter 3: Achievements and challenges

Achievements

The comprehensive approach, the Horn of Africa and
the Sahel

Sanctions

Impact on political problems

Operational improvements

Challenges

Reconciling policy differences

Determining priorities and focus

Institutional questions

EEAS/Commission relations

Trade

Development

Crisis management

Chapter 4: Differing approaches to the EEAS

The UK

Other Member States

Chapter 5: Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix 1: List of members and declarations of interest

Appendix 2: List of witnesses

Appendix 3: Call for evidence

Appendix 4: Glossary of terms and abbreviations

Appendix 5: EEAS monthly salary table (including
allowances and deductions)

Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hleuc and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 5314)

References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:

Q refers to a question in oral evidence.

Witness names without a question reference refer to written evidence.


 
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