Protocol for the accession of the Portuguese Republic and the Kingdom of Spain to the Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence, signed at Brussels on 17 March 1948, as amended by the Protocol modifying and completing the Brussels Treaty , signed at Paris on 23 October 1954

Brussels Treaty | Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence

SEATO [ SEATO countries | South-East Asia Treaty Organisation | South-East Asia Treaty Organization ]

Warsaw Pact Organisation [ Warsaw Pact | Warsaw Pact Organization | Warsaw Treaty ]

Brussels Treaty

South-East Asia Treaty Organisation | SEATO [Abbr.]

NATO [ Atlantic Alliance | Atlantic Community | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation | North Atlantic Treaty Organization ]

Nuclear Planning Group of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1) | Nuclear Planning Group (2)

The Treaties for each of these organisations include a collective self-defence clause (Article V of the Treaty of Brussels establishing the WEU and Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty) in accordance with which the signatory countries have an obligation of mutual assistance in the case of aggression, in order to re-establish security.

JOINT DECLARATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, AND THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION // Brussels, 8 July 2016

C. whereas EU institutions have been subjected to US surveillance and spying activities, including by placing bugs in the EU diplomatic representation to the US in Washington and to the UN in New York, infiltrating computer networks (emails and internal documents), performing cyber attacks from a NATO complex used by NSA experts against the EU in Brussels, notably the EU Council and European Council; whereas the President of Parliament has called for clarifications in this regard; whereas the US authorities have also targeted the French, Italian and Greek missions to the UN;

The Union is actively implementing the Strategy and is giving effect to the measures listed in Chapter III thereof, in particular through releasing financial resources to support specific projects conducted by multilateral institutions, such as the Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO).