Belgium – Research and development services and related consultancy services – Multiple Framework contract to provide foreign policy expertise — European Parliament, EXPO - Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union — Belgium Defense Contract
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Belgium – Research and development services and related consultancy services – Multiple Framework contract to provide foreign policy expertise
🇧🇪European Parliament, EXPO - Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union·Belgium
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Horizontal Foreign Policy Issues • Multilateralism, including EU relations with multilateral organisations and groupings such as UN, OSCE, G7, G20; • Geopolitics; • CFSP, planning and adoption, implementation incl. Global strategy and foreign policy aspects of the Strategic Compass), strategic culture, diplomacy, EEAS, EUDELs, EUSRs, financing aspects, sanctions policy; • EU inter-institutional relations and dynamic of external relations incl. parliamentary scrutiny of NDICI-Global Europe and IPA III and other funding instruments, e.g. geopolitical aspects of infrastructural investment - Global Gateway, EU consular policy/ crisis response; • external dimensions of energy, space, and other internal policies; • climate diplomacy, ocean diplomacy, cultural and science diplomacy, water diplomacy, geopolitical aspects of health strategy and diplomacy; • mediation, conflict prevention and reconciliation; • regional confidence building and security architecture(s); • Economic and Investment Plans; • parliamentary diplomacy; • Enlargement policy; • The European Neighbourhood Policy: Horizontal aspects; Global Partners • This lot covers the following regions: o Asia - Pacific: South Asia (incl. Afghanistan); Central Asia (including Mongolia); South-East Asia; East Asia (including China, Taiwan, Japan, Koreas); Australia, New Zealand; Indian & Pacific oceanic regions (including Indo-Pacific) ; o Africa: Western Africa & Sahel & Sub-Saharan Africa; Central & Eastern Africa & Horn of Africa; Southern Africa; o Americas: North America, incl. the USA, Canada; Central America; South America; • The following issues should be covered for regions in this lot o Political relations and foreign policy aspects; o Continent-wide and regional organisations and groups, o Implementation of EU external financing instruments; o Human rights and democracy promotion; o Energy, environment and climate issues; o Socio-economic and gender issues; o Trade and economic issues; o Security and defence issues;
• Candidate countries; • Other non-EU European countries; • Western Balkans and Turkey; • The Black Sea Synergy; • Developments in and EU relations with Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan; • Developments in Russia and EU-Russia relations; • Northern Dimension, Baltic and Barents cooperation and polar policies: Arctic and Antarctic; • Developments in, and EU relations with, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein; • Implementation of EU financial instruments in the regions covered by this lot; • Human rights and democracy promotion in countries and regions covered by this lot; • Energy, environment and climate issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot; • Socio-economic and gender issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot; • Trade and economic issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot; • Security and defence issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
• EU bilateral and multilateral relations with the Mediterranean and the Middle East; country-specific and regional issues; • Maghreb, Mashreq, Israel, Palestine, the Arab Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan; • Middle East peace process; • European Neighbourhood Policy in the southern Mediterranean (horizontally and bilaterally); • Implementation of EU financial instruments in the regions covered by this lot; • Intercultural dialogue, Islam; • External aspects of EU migration policies; • Arab League, Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Gulf Cooperation Council, Union for the Mediterranean, and other regional/multilateral organisations; • Human rights and democracy promotion in countries and regions covered by this lot; • Energy, environment and climate issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot; • Socio-economic and gender issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot; • Trade and economic issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot; • Security and defence issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
• Governance: political situation in developing countries; democratisation and electoral process; civil society; human rights, regional and local authorities; regional organisations; fragile states; conflict prevention and peace keeping; migration and refugees; economic governance; public financial management; budget transparency, natural resources good governance; effective parliamentary accountability; • Economic development: economic situation in developing countries, sub regions and regions; capacity-development; agricultural development and food security; fisheries; industrial development; infrastructure; promoting SMEs; sustainable tourism; role and potential of ICTs and new technologies; role of trans-national corporations, debt and financial resilience in developing countries; • Environment and climate change: implementation of the Paris Agreement; water management; climate change impact and adaptation strategies in developing countries; energy and sustainable management of natural resources; global environmental governance: climate change and resources; opportunities and challenges of green technologies in developing countries; • Social and human development: social situation in developing countries (including inequality and equal opportunities); education (including technical and vocational training); health (including population policy and reproductive health); children/youth and development; • Women and development: gender discrimination (social, political, economic), women’s rights and development politics, female leadership in developing countries; • Displacement, migration and development: Climate Change and displacement; conflict and displacement, impact of migration and displacement on developing countries; external aspects of EU migration policies; • International development cooperation: Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals, financing for development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda), aid modalities and aid effectiveness (Paris Declaration); international aid architecture; international financial institutions and development; NGOs, civil society and development aid; development education and awareness; new development actors (private foundations); South-South cooperation; emerging powers (such as the BRICS) and their own cooperation schemes; • Trade: trade relations with developing countries, including Economic Partnership Agreements (Samoa Agreement); GSP; Aid for trade; trade in commodities (raw materials and energy); fisheries agreements, global trade and food security, crisis resilience of global trade and developing countries, sustainable development in trade agreements; • European development cooperation policy, instruments and actors: European Consensus on Development; policy coherence for development; NDICI-Global Europe; Global Gateway, EFSD+, EIB lending; • Humanitarian aid and disaster relief(including food aid); climate change-related threats; international humanitarian aid cooperation; long-term assistance (LRRD strategies); international humanitarian aid capacity development, crisis resilience capacity development; new humanitarian donors; European Aid regulation; European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid; European Civil Protection Mechanism (including underlying instruments);
• Implementation of the Versailles Declaration • Implementation of the Strategic Compass, including any future revisions • Towards a European Defence Union • All measures towards the progressive framing of a common Union defence policy that will lead to a common defence • Coherence and consistency of CSDP with other Union financial instruments, legislation and policies • International agreements on security and defence, including on information security, counter-terrorism, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, • EU bilateral and multilateral partnerships on security and defence and relations other Union institutions and bodies, the UNO, NATO, OSCE, the European Political Community and other international and regional organisations and evolving European security architecture • Bilateral security arrangements with key parts in particular Ukraine in support of its membership process Operational dimension of the Common Security and Defence Policy • CSDP Civilian Missions and Military Operations • other Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) operational instruments inter alia: Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO), the Rapid Deployment Capacity/Battlegroups, Civilian and Military Exercises including operational scenarios • the civilian CSDP compact • EU structures, agencies and bodies for security and defence; in particular CSDP structures, inter alia, the Directorate-General of the EU Military Staff; the European Defence Agency, the EU Satellite Centre and the European Security and Defence College and EU Institute for Security Studies European Defence Technological and Industrial Policy • Joint Procurement initiatives of the EU Member States within and outside the framework of the EU and multilateral procurement agencies and arrangements. • The role of the Joint Defence Procurement Task Force in implementing the Versailles Declaration ambitions and ensuring a coordinated EEAS/EDA/Commission approach to defence capability development; • the role of the European Defence Agency and its Capability Development Plan (CDP) and Coordinated Annual Review of Defence (CARD), • the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP), • the European Defence Fund (EDF) • the European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act (EDIRPA); • issues linked to the defence equipment market, procurement, trade; • Current and future EU level budgets and instruments for security and defence • Mapping of Member States defence spending trends for operations, personnel, capabilities, research and development, and procurement; • CFSP Budget for Civilian Missions • the European Peace Facility (EPF) • the peace and security pillar of NDICI • Military Mobility • Global and regional security issues, including the nexus between climate change and security, and global/regional security organisations and actors; • Terrorism, and asymmetric threats; • Hybrid threats, including cyber threats, threats to critical infrastructure, disinformation and propaganda; • Weapons and materials of mass destruction: Arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, CBRN ; • Conventional weapons (SALW, landmines, CCW, NLW): Arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament ; • Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (incl. AI), operational applications and proliferation control; • National and EU-related defence policies and roles of National Parliaments; • Security sector reform (SSR) and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR); • Global, regional and national trends in defence policies; • Trends in defence doctrines, capabilities and forces; • Civil-military relations; • Conflict Prevention, peacebuilding, peace-keeping, human security, Capacity Building in support of Security and Development; • Space polices and technologies with an EU security/defence dimension;
• WTO as a pillar of the world trading system, including its parliamentary dimension, WTO law, dispute settlement, development issues, intellectual property issues and the reform of the WTO; • Developments regarding multilateralism, regionalism and nationalism in the global economic governance; • Bilateral and plurilateral agreements; • Protection of intellectual property rights in the international trading system; • The EU's autonomous trade measures (including, concessions granted to third countries by the EU); • The Generalised System of Preferences (GSP); • Rules of origin; • Trade defence instruments (anti-dumping, countervailing duties, safeguards, anti-subsidy measures); • External aspects of the EU competitiveness strategy; • The EU's trade related assistance to third countries; • The external dimensions of the EU single market (Customs Union) and its trade related implications; • Market access strategy, role of non-tariff barriers in EU trade policy, trade promotion; • External economic aspects of the EU relations with third countries; • Foreign investment-related issues; • Public procurement; • Raw materials and energy related issues; • Other trade related issues, including label laws, environmental protection, sustainable development, labour rights; • Economic Security (including FDI Screening); • Global Value Chains; • Implementation and enforcement of trade policy;
UN human rights conventions and treaties; development of new international human rights standards and treaties; narratives and discourses undermining international human rights standards; • Human rights related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SGD 16 in particular); • UN human rights bodies, including Human Rights Council , UN General Assembly Third Committee, UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (and other UN monitoring bodies), OHCHR, UNHCR, ILO; • Regional conventions and institutions on human rights and democracy: OSCE; Council of Europe; regional mechanisms in the Americas, Africa, and Asia; • Other specialised actors on human rights at global, regional and local level, in particular civil society organisations, human rights defenders, national human rights institutions (NHRIs), Ombudsmen; • International criminal justice, including International Criminal Court and other international criminal tribunals/special courts, Universal Jurisdiction; • Human rights in armed conflict and post-conflict crisis situations; genocide prevention; responsibility to protect (R2P) and human rights; international humanitarian law, international refugee law; • Human rights in political transitions; transitional justice; • civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights, including death penalty, minority rights, labour rights, women’s rights, non-discrimination, rights of the child; rights of persons with disabilities and LGBTI people; • Business & human rights; corporate social responsibility and due diligence; • Human rights and sustainable development, including environment and climate change; • Human rights and new technologies; • Human rights and corruption; • EU external human rights policy actors: Foreign Affairs Council, Political and Security Committee, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice- President of the European Commission, European External Action Service, European Commission, Human Rights Working Group (COHOM), EU Special Representative for Human Rights, human rights focal points in delegations; • Targeted EU human rights policy instruments: Strategic Framework and Action Plan on human rights and democracy; human rights dialogues and consultations; demarches and declarations; human rights and democracy clauses in international agreements; human rights guidelines; human rights and democracy country strategies; external financing instruments; sanctions; • Mainstreaming of human rights in EU's external policies: human rights and development cooperation (rights-based approach to development), EU trade policy, human rights in EU counter-terrorism policy, in CSDP missions, in enlargement process and neighbourhood policy; • Human rights in the external aspects of EU's internal policies: migration, refugees and asylum, EU border management, human trafficking; • Competences, policies and structures of the European Parliament for promoting human rights din the EU’s external relations; • International standards on democracy, including elections, and on election observation; • International organisations dealing with democracy standard setting and monitoring, including election observation and follow up to elections (UN, regional organisations like Council of Europe and Venice Commission, OSCE/ODIHR, AU, OAU, IDEA,); • Summit for Democracy process; • parliamentary democracy/role of parliaments and parliamentary cooperation; • parliamentary actors engaged in democracy support and election observation as well as election follow up, such as IPU, PACE, OSCE-PA, PAP; • non-state actors engaged in democracy and elections, including democracy defenders, domestic election observers, democratic party foundations; • new technological developments relevant to democracy and elections; • disinformation/information manipulation and democracy;