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This paper presents some of the EU’s WMD non-proliferation activities. The central policy of the European Union on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction is twofold. The EU not only supports and works with multilateral nonproliferation regimes, but also assists non-EU countries to implement their commitments under the international non-proliferation regimes to which they are party. The EU’s chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risk mitigation programs are currently guided by the EU CBRN Action Plan, which aims to ‘reduce the threat and damage from CBRN incidents of accidental, natural and intentional origin’. Due to EU institutional arrangements, these programs are often labelled as ‘internal security matters’ and thus overlooked in EU external action, despite their contribution to non-proliferation objectives.