European Defence Data 2007Source: European Defence Agency
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Released Nov. 10, 2008
28 pages in PDF format
This document is the EDA’s annual report on the defense spending of the 26 member nations of the European Defence Agency in 2007. The statistics are broken down, based on a list of indicators approved by the Agency’s Ministerial Steering Board, in four sections:
-- General: macro-economic data to show how defence budgets relate to GDP and overall government spending;
-- Reform: major categories of defence budgets spending – personnel; investment, including research & technology; operations & maintenance and others – to show on what the defence budgets are spent;
-- European collaboration: for equipment procurement and R&T to show to what extent the Agency’s participating Member States are investing together;
-- Deployability: military deployed in crisis management operations to show the ratio between deployments and the total number of military.
In November 2007 the Ministerial Steering Board approved four collective benchmarks for investment:
-- Equipment procurement (including R&D/R&T): 20% of total defence spending;
-- European collaborative equipment procurement: 35% of total equipment spending;
-- Defence Research & Technology: 2% of total defence spending;
-- European collaborative Defence R&T: 20% of total Defence R&T spending.
These benchmarks are collective: they apply to the total sum spent by all participating Member States together. They are voluntary in the sense turning them into national targets is optional. There are no timelines for realising these benchmarks.
In its final section this brochure provides the results of the collective benchmarks. The definitions, used for the gathering of the data, and some general caveats are listed at the end of the brochure.
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