Expansion of the scope and nature of cooperation in the context of ASEAN-EU
relations intensified after 1994 with the decision to establish an ad hoc Eminent Persons
Group to develop a comprehensive approach to ASEAN-EU relations, which at this
time included specific reference to political and security cooperation. ASEAN and the
EU adopted the Nuremberg Declaration on an EU-ASEAN Enhanced Partnership at
the 16th AEMM in March 2007. The Plan of Action to Implement the Nuremberg
Declaration on an ASEAN-EU Enhanced Partnership was drawn up and adopted
during the first ASEAN-EU Summit in November 2007. Both documents provide a
basis for enhancing cooperation between the EU and ASEAN in the political, security,
economic, socio-cultural and development areas as well as in the fields of energy security
and climate change/the environment.