It should now be equally noted that the Constitutional Treaty also includes a number of major improvements in the field of ESDP, including an updating of the Petersburg tasks, multinational forces set up by Member States available to the ESDP, compromise to progressively improving military capabilities and setting up a European Armaments, Research and Military Capabilities Agency, European decisions as a new instrument for the implementation of the CFSP/ESDP, execution of ESDP tasks, within the Union framework, by a group of Member States, permanent structured cooperation between Member States which fulfil higher military capabilities criteria within the Union framework for the most demanding tasks, mutual solidarity clause establishing an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means within the power of each Member State towards any other Member State that is a victim of armed aggression on its territory (without prejudice to the security and defence policy of certain Member States or the role played by NATO for certain other Member States) and a solidarity clause for mutual assistance to prevent terrorist threats or terrorist attacks or in the event of a disaster.
It should now be equally noted that the Constitutional Treaty also includes a number of major improvements in the field of ESDP, including an updating of the Petersburg tasks, multinational forces set up by Member States available to the ESDP, compromise to progressively improving military capabilities and setting up a European Armaments, Research and Military Capabilities Agency, European decisions as a new instrument for the implementation of the CFSP/ESDP, execution of ESDP tasks, within the Union framework, by a group of Member States, permanent structured cooperation between Member States which fulfil higher military capabilities criteria within the Union framework for the most demanding tasks, mutual solidarity clause establishing an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means within the power of each Member State towards any other Member State that is a victim of armed aggression on its territory (without prejudice to the security and defence policy of certain Member States or the role played by NATO for certain other Member States) and a solidarity clause for mutual assistance to prevent terrorist threats or terrorist attacks or in the event of a disaster.