Documents and materials concerning European Defense Cooperation for the first time are most full resulted in the present edition. Theoretical and practical explanatories to the documents submitted in the book are given in the foreword, introductions to parts and sections and footnotes as well as in comments. For officials of bodies of the government, the foreign policy and external economic organizations, law enforcement bodies, lawyers, heads of the enterprises, businessmen, science officers, teachers, students and post-graduate students of legal high schools and faculties, and also for all interested readers.