The Unit for Security Policy and Crisis Management is responsible for the following issues:

• general security policy
• Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
• military crisis management, civilian crisis management
• permits for Finnish government aircraft and government vessels
• European and Euro-Atlantic security arrangements, including Nato/EAPC/PfP
• co-operation with the Nordic Countries in security policy
• the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), excluding human dimension
• UN operations
• election monitoring tasks