550 Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos Núm. 2 / 2013 military operations, and the doubt concerning the continued activation of the Centre of Operations to that effect42, with its limited impact and physical and conceptual potential for expansion. But while all of this serves only to resolve the question of the very structure of the CSDP bodies themselves, and not their relationship with the rest of the EEAS; it is also true to say that, as they do not report to a national Operational Headquarters, the coordination of a European HQ with the rest of the service should be somewhat simpler. The proposed reform of the EEAS does not comment on the topic, as it is more a matter for the reconsideration of the CSDP. But it echoes the call by the High Representative for the Situation Room, (organically included among the divisions of Military Staff) to be co-located with the Commission’s Emergency Response Centre to create a single EU facility. This would allow for the joint and continued work of the EEAS and the bodies of the Commission in this field. It also speaks out in favour of mechanisms that would make the expertise of the Military Staff personnel available to all policy departments of the Service and increase synergies between the geographical experts of the Intelligence Centre with the Delegations and the policy departments of the Service43: practical formulas that would serve to palliate some of the current deficiencies. 2.3. On the ground coordination of CSDP missions, EU Delegations, embassies of member States and European Union partners. The theoretical separation -at institutional level– and even more so, the real separation, were it to occur, between the CSDP missions and the Delegations, the Special Representatives, the Embassies of the member States and the EU partners constitutes another obstacle to a comprehensive approach to crisis management on behalf of the Union. The role of representation assigned to EU Delegations in third countries and to international Organisations44 is relevant to the promotion and enlargement of the 42 We ought to bear in mind that the EU Centre of Operations was activated for the first time on 23 March 2012 by the Foreign Affairs Council to improve coordination and reinforce civilian and military synergies between the three actions of the CSDP in the Horn of Africa: the military EUNAVFOR ATALANTA, the EU training mission in Somalia (EUTM Somalia) and the civilian EU capacity (with a component of military personnel) NESTOR (EUCAP NESTOR), http://www. eeas.europa.eu/csdp/structures-instruments-agencies/eu-operations-centre/index_en.htm 43 European External Action Service, EEAS Review, July 2013, pp.5-6. Includes the formula of short-term staff loans in both directions between the Military staff (EUMS) and other policy departments . 44 The EU Delegations to Third Countries and international Organisations, not being part of the EEAS, while not reflected in the organisation chart, but are included in the regulations of the Decision of the Council of 26 July 2010, which establishes the functioning and organisation of the EEAS, DO L 201 of 3.8.2010.
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