will act in conformity with the positions adopted in the Atlantic Alliance.

WEU Member States will intensify their coordination on Alliance issues which Represent an important common interest with the aim of introducing joint positions agreed in WEU into the process of consultation in the Alliance which will remain the essential forum for consultation among its members and the venue for agreement on policies bearing on the security and defence commitments of Allies under the North Atlantic Treaty.

Where necessary, dates and venues of meetings will be synchronized and working methods harmonized.

Close cooperation will be established between the Secretariats-General of WEU and NATO.

C Operational role of WEU

5. WEU's operational role will be strengthened by examining and defining appropriate missions, structures and means, covering in particular:

WEU planning cell;

closer military cooperation complementary to the Alliance in particular in the fields of logistics, transport, training and strategic surveillance;

meetings of WEU Chiefs of Defence Staff; military units answerable to WEU.

Other proposals will be examined further, including;

enhanced cooperation in the Field of armaments with the aim of creating a European armaments agency;

development of the WEU Institute into a European Security and Defence Academy.

Arrangements aimed dat giving WEU a stronger operational role will be fully compatible with the military dispositions necessary to ensure the collective defence of all Allies.

D Other measures

6. As a consequence of the measures set out above, and in order to facilitate tile strengthening of WEUs role, the seat of the WEU Council and Secretariat will be transferred to Brussels.

7. Representation on the WEU Council must be such that the Council is able to exercise its functions continuously in accordance with Article VIII of the modified Brussels Treaty. Member States may draw on a double hatting formula, to be worked Out, consisting of their representatives to the Alliance and to the European Union.

8. WEU notes that, in accordance with the provisions of Article J. 4(6) concerning the common foreign and security policy of the Treaty on European Union, the Union

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