Petersberg tasks

The Petersberg tasks were set in 1992 at the Summit of Ministers of the Western European Union ( WEU). You should first be carried out by the defense component of the WEU and included

These tasks were later transferred to the European Security and Defence Policy of the European Union, as well as most of the components of the WEU.

Named the tasks according to the venue, the guest house of the Federal Republic of Germany on the Petersberg.