Page:Council Decision 2013-527-CFSP of 24 October 2013 amending and extending the mandate of the European Union Special Representative for the Horn of Africa (EUD 2013-527).pdf/6

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 * (b)||ensuring that all personnel deployed outside the Union are covered by high risk insurance, as required by the conditions in the mission area;
 * (c)||ensuring that all members of the EUSR's team to be deployed outside the Union, including locally contracted personnel, have received appropriate security training before or upon arriving in the mission area, based on the risk ratings assigned to the mission area by the EEAS;
 * (d)||ensuring that all agreed recommendations made following regular security assessments are implemented, and providing the Council, the HR and the Commission with written reports on their implementation and on other security issues within the framework of the progress report and the report on the implementation of the mandate.
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 * (d)||ensuring that all agreed recommendations made following regular security assessments are implemented, and providing the Council, the HR and the Commission with written reports on their implementation and on other security issues within the framework of the progress report and the report on the implementation of the mandate.
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1. The EUSR shall regularly provide the HR and the PSC with oral and written reports. The EUSR shall also report to Council working parties as necessary. Regular written reports shall be circulated through the COREU network. Upon recommendation of the HR or the PSC, the EUSR may provide the Foreign Affairs Council with reports. In accordance with Article 36 of the Treaty the EUSR may be involved in briefing the European Parliament.

2. The EUSR shall report on the best way of pursuing Union initiatives, such as the contribution of the Union to reforms, and including the political aspects of relevant Union development projects, in coordination with the Union delegations in the region.

1. The EUSR shall contribute to the unity, consistency and effectiveness of the Union's actions and shall help to ensure that all Union instruments and Member States' action are engaged consistently, to attain the Union's policy objectives. The activities of the EUSR shall be coordinated with those of Union Delegations and of the Commission, as well as those of other EUSR'sEUSRs [sic] active in the region, in particular with the EUSR to the AU and with the EU Special Envoy for Somalia. The EUSR shall provide regular briefings to Member States’ missions and the Union delegations in the region.

2. In the field, close liaison and communication shall be maintained with the Heads of the Union delegation and Member States’ Heads of Mission. They shall make best efforts to assist the EUSR in the implementation of the mandate. The EUSR, in close co-ordination with the relevant Union delegations, shall provide local political guidance to the Force Commander of EUNAVFOR Atalanta, the Mission Commander of EUTM Somalia, the Head of EUCAP Nestor and the Head of EUAVSEC in South Sudan. The EUSR, the EU Operation Commanders and the Civilian Operation Commander shall consult each other as required.

3. The EUSR shall closely cooperate with the authorities of the countries involved, the UN, the AU, IGAD, other national regional and international stakeholders, and also with civil society in the region.