Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) - Main contents

This directorate-general is a remnant of the former DG foreign affairs that was absorbed into the European External Actions Service i. This DG is currently responsible for the implementation of several EU-programmes in the field of external policy.

Today the FPI is tasked with:

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  Implementing the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) budget;
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  Implementing crisis response and prevention measures financed under the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP);
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  Implementing the Partnership Instrument (PI), designed to promote the Union's strategic interests worldwide
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  Implementing co-operation with industrialised countries (ICI);
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  Implementing electoral observation missions under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights;
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  Preparing and implementing sanction proposals;
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  Implementing at EU level the Kimberley Process certification scheme; and
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  Working to prevent the trade in goods that could be used for capital punishment or torture.