13/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - Foreign Ministers of the European Union meeting in Brussels on Monday approved the operational concept for the future EU-led Althea mission, the CONOPS, which is to take over from NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina by the end of the year. CONOPS is the first stage of Althea military planning and sets out a general framework of aims, military tasks and the conduct of operations. Now that CONOPS has been approved, the EU can begin to develop the OPLAN, the operational plan...