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European Defence Agency

Agency of the European Union

Location:

Brussels, Belgium

Formation
- Signed
- Established

July 2004

Pillar:

Common Foreign and Security Policy

Director:

Alexander Weis

Budget:

€32 million (2008)EUobserver.com

Website:

eda.europa.eu

The European Defence Agency (EDA) is an agency of the European Union based in Brussels. It is a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) body set up on 12 July 2004, reporting to the Council of the European Union. The EDA serves all European Union member states except Denmark, which has an opt-out of issues relating to defence.European Defence Agency europa.eu

Tasks

The Council established the EDA "to support the Member States and the Council in their effort to improve European defence capabilities in the field of crisis management and to sustain the European Security and Defence Policy as it stands now and develops in the future”. Within that overall mission are four functionsBackground eda.europa.eu;

Developing defence capabilities.
Promoting defence research and technology.
Promoting armaments co-operation.
Creating a competitive European defence equipment market and strengthening the European defence, technological and industrial base.

Structure

Javier Solana is the head of EDA

Politics
European Union
This article is part of the series: Defence of the European Union
CFSP High Representative Javier Solana Foreign and Security Policy Security and Defence Policy Defence Initiative Petersberg tasks Foreign relations
Bodies
Defence Agency Institute for Security Studies Satellite Centre Military Committee Military Staff Defence Procurement
Military Forces
Helsinki Headline Goal EUFOR Battlegroups Gendarmerie Eurocorps Deployments
Related organisations
Western European Union North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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The body has a legal personality and is governed primarily by three elementsEuropean Defence Agency eda.europa.eu.

Head of the Agency: Responsible for overall organisation and functioning, ensures implementation of guidelines and decisions, chairs ministerial meetings of Steering Board. Currently, Javier Solana (also CFSP High Representative) appointed at the agency\'s foundation (July 12 2004)
Steering Board: The agency\'s decision making body, composed of the defence ministers of participating Member States together with a representative of the European Commission and led by the Head of the AgencyBackground eda.europa.eu.
Chief Executive: Head of staff and responsible for supervision and co-ordination of units. Currently Alexander WeisNew Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency Appointed eda.europa.eu 24//05/07.

As of 2007, EDA has a staff of around 100.

History

The European Defence Agency is a continuation of the work of the Western European Armaments Organization (WEAO) and the Western European Armaments Group (WEAG) - it effectively represents the transference of their functions from the WEU to the EU framework, and thus continues the decommissioning of the WEU.