European Defense Agency
European Defense Agency EVA |
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English name | European Defense Agency (EDA) |
French name | Agence européenne de defense |
Organization type | European Union Agency |
status | Establishment of European public law with its own legal personality |
Seat of the organs | Ixelles , Belgium |
Chair | High Representative of the EU for Foreign and Security Policy |
Secretary General | Jiří Šedivý |
Member States | 27 |
founding |
2004 |
eda.europa.eu |
The Agency for the Development of Defense Capabilities, Research, Procurement and Armaments or European Defense Agency ( EVA ), English European Defense Agency ( EDA ), is an agency of the European Union for arms planning, procurement and research founded in 2004 . It is thus a central institution of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP, formerly European Security and Defense Policy, ESDP).
tasks
According to its founding document, the EVA was mandated to "support the Council and the Member States in their efforts to improve the EU's defense capabilities in the field of crisis management and to provide lasting support to the CSDP as it is now and as it will develop in the future". In 2007, the Treaty of Lisbon included the EVA in European primary law. Accordingly, according to Article 42 (3) of the EU Treaty, it “determines operational needs and promotes measures to meet these needs, contributes to the identification of measures to strengthen the industrial and technological base of the defense sector and, if necessary, carries out these measures, participates in the definition a European policy in the field of capabilities and armaments and assists the Council in assessing the improvement of military capabilities ”.
It is therefore responsible for developing effective defense capacities (particularly in the area of crisis management) and coordinating the armaments activities of the member states and possible joint weapons purchases. It is also intended to help finance European arms research . The coordination activities of the EVA are intended to enable a more efficient use of the armaments expenditures of the European states - for example by avoiding overcapacities and through synergy effects in joint purchases.
organization
It is headed by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy , currently Josep Borrell . After it was founded by a decision by the heads of state and government of the European Council in autumn 2004, the EVA was initially headed by Javier Solana , who was also High Representative for the EU's common foreign and security policy. On December 1, 2009, leadership passed to Catherine Ashton , Solana's successor as High Representative for the CFSP. From February 9, 2010 to October 31, 2014, she headed the EVA in her new capacity as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Federica Mogherini succeeded her on November 1, 2014. The EVA's decision-making body is a steering committee that includes the High Representative as chairman of the Defense Ministries of the 27 participating countries (all EU members except Denmark ). The agency's managing director, currently Jiří Šedivý, reports to the steering committee, which in turn is subject to the requirements of the Council of the European Union . The EVA had a total of 110 employees in 2010, compared to 126 in December 2014.
budget
year | Budget (million €) | Expenditures (million €) |
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2004 | 1.9 | 0.4 |
2005 | 20.7 | 12.8 |
2006 | 22.7 | 18.8 |
2007 | 22.4 | 21.5 |
2008 | 27.5 | 26.2 |
2009 | 29.2 | 28.1 |
2010 | 31.0 | 30.5 |
2011 | 30.5 | 30.5 |
2012 | 30.5 | 30.5 |
2013 | 30.5 | 30.5 |
2014 | 30.5 | 30.5 |
Results
One of the first results of the European Defense Agency was a voluntary agreement from 2005, according to which military purchases by member states must be put out to tender across Europe. Such Europe-wide tenders were already provided for by the EC Treaty (today the AEU Treaty ) for all major government contracts ; However, under Article 296 of the EC Treaty, military purchases were previously exempt from this. At the end of 2006, the European Defense Agency adopted a joint research program worth 55 million euros.
Within the framework of the Intergovernmental Regime on the Defense Procurement of the EVA, 534 orders were put out to tender from July 1, 2006 to July 1, 2010, of which 308 resulted in a bidding contest. The total volume of the defense contracts awarded with the participation of EVA amounted to almost 21 billion euros in the period mentioned.
In addition, the EVA developed a Europe-wide training program for helicopter crews (HTP). The first exercise under this program took place in 2009. Since then, the joint maneuvers have usually taken place annually in different countries. In addition to the maneuvers, there are joint training courses.
Another area of responsibility is air transport. Similar to the helicopter initiative, there have been joint exercises and training sessions organized by the European Air Transport Command since 2012, also at changing bases . At Zaragoza Airport will be completed by 2016 a training center for transport pilots.
With an in-flight refueling initiative, there has been a third area of joint exercises in the military aviation sector since 2013.
See also
Web links
- EVA on the official website of the European Union europa.eu
- Official website (English)
- Joint action of the Council of the EU to establish the European Defense Agency (legal basis for the establishment of the EVA, July 12, 2004)
- Daniel Pregl, Alois Preineder: … from Brussels: The European Defense Agency , from: Troop service . Episode 312, issue 6/2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b FDFA Chief Executive
- ↑ Speech by Alexander Weis at the Farnborough International Airshow , last accessed on September 16, 2010.
- ↑ eda.europa.eu
- ^ European Defense Agency: The Code of Conduct on Defense Procurement of the EU Member States Participating in the European Defense Agency. (PDF) November 21, 2005, accessed on September 16, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Helicopter Initiatives , EVA homepage, Jan 20, 2015.
- ↑ European Air Transport Fleet , EVA homepage, Nov. 5, 2014.
- ↑ Air-to-Air Refueling , EVA homepage, Nov. 11, 2014.
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