administrative arrangement with organisation for joint armament cooperation (OCCAR)

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Jelena von Achenbach

Dear European Defence Agency,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

Administrative Arrangement with the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR). I wish to obtain the Administrative Arrangement for research purposes.

Yours faithfully,

Jelena von Achenbach

Jelena von Achenbach

Dear European Defence Agency,

I requested information regarding the administrative arrangement with the organisation for joint armament cooperation (OCCAR) some time ago. Unfortunately, I have not yet received any response. By law, the EDA should normally have responded promptly and by October 06, 2014. I kindly ask you to process my request and keep me updated about the decision of the EDA.

Yours faithfully,

Jelena von Achenbach

ALLAN Tim, Agence européenne de défense

Hi Jelena,

Thanks for your email and apologies for the delay in getting back to you, we must have just missed your first email.

Regarding your request, we have an introductory paragraph on our website here regarding the Administrative Arrangement:

https://www.eda.europa.eu/aboutus/who-we...

"The European Defence Agency and the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) signed an Administrative Arrangement on 27 July 2012. On the occasion of the signature, the OCCAR-EA Director Patrick Bellouard expressed his conviction that: “From now on, integration into OCCAR of programmes originating from EDA’s work on capabilities and harmonisation of requirements, will run smoother, delivering maximum efficiency for our customers.” Under the arrangement, EDA and OCCAR share information on projects and programmes throughout their lifecycle, helping to guarantee a seamless handover of projects, with both parties remaining involved and informed at every stage. EDA and OCCAR have already cooperated effectively on an ad hoc basis on several major projects. This arrangement incorporates the lessons learned from these projects."

I have also forwarded your email to the project officer in charge of relations with OCCAR but if you could send me a few more questions outlining exactly what you are interested in it would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Tim

Tim ALLAN
Media & Communication Officer

European Defence Agency
Rue des Drapiers 17-23
B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Tel: +32 (0)2 504 2883
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Jelena von Achenbach

Dear Tim,

thanks a lot for your response. First of all, I would like to obtain the actual text of the administrative agreement itself. I´m pursuing a research project on international armament cooperation. Therefore I would like to understand how and what kind of cooperation between EDA and OCCAR actually takes place. I´m especially interested in any communications that are exchanged between both institutions and any documents that describe joint projects and the like. I greatly appreciate your help.

Yours sincerely,

Jelena von Achenbach

ALLAN Tim, Agence européenne de défense

Hi Jelena,

Great, thanks for your response. I have forwarded your questions to the project officer in charge.

Will let you know as soon as I have something back.

Cheers,

Tim
Tim ALLAN
Media & Communication Officer

European Defence Agency
Rue des Drapiers 17-23
B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Tel: +32 (0)2 504 2883
Fax: +32 (0)2 504 2815

[email address]
www.eda.europa.eu

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Jelena von Achenbach

Dear Tim,

I just want to follow up on my request since I haven´t heard back from EDA regarding my question about the cooperation of EDA and OCCAR. Could you please check back with the people in charge of processing my request?

Yours sincerely,

Jelena von Achenbach

ALLAN Tim, Agence européenne de défense

Hi Jelena,

I just spoke to my colleague regarding this and apparently it takes time to get approval to release the documents from the different parties involved. However, he said if you would be happy to accept it, he could prepare a summary from EDA's side of how the cooperation works? Would that be reasonable from your side and what you need?

Thanks,

Tim

Tim ALLAN
Media & Communication Officer

European Defence Agency
Rue des Drapiers 17-23
B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Tel: +32 (0)2 504 2883
Fax: +32 (0)2 504 2815

[email address]
www.eda.europa.eu

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Jelena von Achenbach

Hi Tim,

thanks for your reply.

I would highly appreciate if your colleague would make available a summary of the cooperation from EDA´s perspective.

Yet I would still like to maintain my request regarding the text of the administrative arrangement with OCCAR and related documents.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best,

Jelena

ALLAN Tim, Agence européenne de défense

Hi Jelena,

No problem, I will ask him to prepare the summary.

Regarding the other documents I will get him to forward them as soon as we have approval on what can and can't be released from each party. I appreciate your patience regarding this.

Thanks,

Tim
Tim ALLAN
Media & Communication Officer

European Defence Agency
Rue des Drapiers 17-23
B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Tel: +32 (0)2 504 2883
Fax: +32 (0)2 504 2815

[email address]
www.eda.europa.eu

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ALLAN Tim, Agence européenne de défense

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Hi Jelena,

Firstly, apologies for the delay from our side. It just took a long time to get all of the approvals needed to release it.

Please see the agreement between EDA and OCCAR attached.

Thank you for your patience and kind regards,

Tim ALLAN
Media & Communication Officer

European Defence Agency
Rue des Drapiers 17-23
B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Tel: +32 (0)2 504 2883
Fax: +32 (0)2 504 2815

[email address]
www.eda.europa.eu

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