The Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) is a department (Directorate-General) of the European Commission set up in response to the establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS). The EEAS merged the Commission's

Directorate-General for External Relations The Directorate-General for the External Relations (DG RELEX, DG E VIII) was a Directorate-General of the European Commission, responsible for the external policy. The DG was merged into the European External Action Service in 2010, then headed by ...

(and various other departments) with its counterparts in the

Council of Ministers A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or natio ...

. The responsible Commissioner for the service is the

High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) is the chief co-ordinator and representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) within the European Union (EU). The position is currently held ...

Josep Borrell Fontelles Josep Borrell Fontelles (; born 24 April 1947) is a Spanish politician serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 1 December 2019. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he serve ...

in his role as Commission Vice-President. The current Head of Service is Peter M. Wagner. The Service is a Commission department managing foreign policy issues within the Commission's mandate; those areas not transferred to the EEAS and which fall outside the mandate of the

EuropeAid Development and Cooperation The Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG International Partnerships or DG INTPA) is the European Commission department responsible for international development policy. It operates under the authority of the European Commissione ...

DG. It works with the EEAS in the same building, the

Triangle building The seat of the European External Action Service (initially referred to as The Capital, and thereafter sometimes the Triangle building) is the office building on the Robert Schuman Roundabout in the heart of the European Quarter of Brussels, Belg ...

in Brussels. It manages programmes such as the crisis response ''Instrument for Stability'', which is shared between the Commission and EEAS. Specifically its tasks include: *the

Common Foreign and Security Policy The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is the organised, agreed foreign policy of the European Union (EU) for mainly security and defence diplomacy and actions. CFSP deals only with a specific part of the EU's external relations, whic ...

(CFSP); *the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) - The IcSP is an EU instrument to support security initiatives and peace-building activities in partner countries. It was established in 2014 to take over from the Instrument for Stability (IfS). *the Partnership Instrument *the Instrument for Cooperation with Industrialised Countries (ICI); and *Election Observation Missions (EOMs). The FPI is also responsible for managing some foreign policy regulatory instruments: *CFSP sanctions; *Kimberley Process certification scheme (for rough diamonds); and *Prevention of trade in goods that could be used for capital punishment or torture

References

External links

* {{Foreign relations of the European Union Directorates-General in the European Commission

See also

References

External links