OCCAR (Agência europeia de armamento)

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OCCAR (Agência europeia de armamento)
« em: Janeiro 11, 2005, 02:18:31 am »
Germany Takes Chair of OCCAR; Agency Expanded by Entry of Spain
 
 
(Source: German Ministry of Defence; issued Jan. 7, 2005)

(Issued in German only; unofficial translation by defense-aerospace.com)
 
 
 BERLIN --- At the beginning of 2005, the rotating chairmanship of the nascent European arms agency, OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d'Armement), was transferred to Germany for one year.  
 
On January 1, 2005 Spain became a full member – OCCAR’s sixth.  
 
OCCAR was created in November 1996 by France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy with the goal of creating a common organization for efficient co-operation in the field of weapons development and acquisition. Belgium joined later. The organisation acquired its legal personality in January 2001.  
 
Spain will initially take part in the A400M military transport aircraft and Tiger combat helicopter programs.  
 
The admission of Spain into the OCCAR is an important step in the advancement of the organization. It strengthens the significance of OCCAR in the context of a common European arms co-operation and underlines its role desired as implementing organization for the European defense agency (European Defence Agency EDA).  
 
OCCAR membership is open to all European states, as long as they participate in at least one major armament program in which at least one OCCAR member state is involved. New members also must subscribe to OCCAR’s founding principles.  
 
The fundamental principles of the OCCAR are:  
 
--cost optimization of common programs, which is achieved by the development and introduction of innovative and efficient “Best Practice” program management procedures, and implemented in the context of a slim organisational structure;  
 
--maximum utilization of competition, and an improvement of the competitive capabilities of the European military engineering industry;  
 
--introduction of a reconciliation of national work-shares over all programs, and over the long term. This replaces the calculation of industrial benefits on a program-by-program basis, as was previously the case in European cooperative programs.  
 
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