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  OCCAR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'ARmement) is a European organisation for coordinating the procurement of purchases of weapon systems by European countries.
OCCAR was established on the 12 November 1996 by the Defence Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the UK.
Other European nations may join OCCAR, subject to their actual involvement in a substantive collaborative equipment programme involving at least one OCCAR partner and acceptance of OCCAR's founding principles, rules regulations and procedures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OCCAR   (134 words)

  
 NIID - OCCAR
OCCAR (Organisation Conjoint de Cooperation en matiere d'ARmement) was established by Administrative Arrangement on 12th November 1996 by the Defence Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the UK.
The Organisation is open to other European Nations, subject to their actual involvement in a substantive collaborative equipment programme involving at least one OCCAR partner and acceptance of OCCAR's founding principles, rules regulations and procedures.
High level policy issues are dealt with by the OCCAR Board of Supervisors (BoS), comprising the National Armament Directors of the member Nations supported by a Future Tasks and Policy Committee and a Finance Committee.
www.niid.nl /content.aspx?i=335   (340 words)

  
 Assembly of WEU
OCCAR and the LoI are important instruments in that respect, although they have their limitations.
OCCAR offers a number of major advantages over preceding bodies: it has a legal personality enabling it to place and manage contracts and organise its own procurement policy, as well as to harmonise the procurement policies of the participating states and to coordinate their RandD.
OCCAR could be the precursor of such an agency, which would have the task of developing a common European procurement based on harmonised requirements, procurement regulations and timetables within the European Union.
assemblee-ueo.org /en/documents/sessions_ordinaires/rpt/2000/1719.html   (14285 words)

  
 Europe steps up procurement cooperation. (Government: Policy Notes). | Aerospace and Defense Industries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
OCCAR was created in 1993 as a French-German initiative to unify differing national policies for the development and procurement of joint armaments.
OCCAR acts as a multi-national agent on collaborative projects for its member countries.
OCCAR is founded on the principle of an open structure to manage multiple procurement projects efficiently for many countries.
www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/335535-1.html   (582 words)

  
 News: Europe will manage NH-90   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
France, Germany and Italy are already members of OCCAR, an agency set up in 1996 to coordinate procurement and manage common defence programmes across European borders.
The Netherlands is on track to become a member of OCCAR shortly.
OCCAR currently manages a handful of European defence programmes including the Tiger helicopter, the Milan, Hot and Roland missiles and the MRAV armoured vehicle.
www.helis.com /news/2000/nh90euro.htm   (238 words)

  
 NDM Article - Europe Steps Up Procurement Cooperation
Many in the U.S. defense industry view OCCAR as the initial seed for a pan-European arms-procurement agency and potentially the template for the next generation of European procurement organizations.
OCCAR representatives addressing a seminar co-sponsored by NDIA said that this would not necessarily be the case, but U.S. industry representatives have adopted a “wait-and-see” attitude.
In such instances, OCCAR continues to serve as the agent/manager for the programs, but the end users on the export license are the member nations, not OCCAR.
www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2002/Nov/Europe_Steps.htm   (720 words)

  
 Vrede vzw
OCCAR is also determined in its drive for continuous business improvement and the achievement of best value-for-money, the latter by abandoning prescriptive national workshare entitlements.
Membership of OCCAR is open to other European nations subject to their commitment to a major project involving at least one of the OCCAR partner nations and acceptance of OCCAR's principles and policies, and accession to the OCCAR Convention.
OCCAR was established on 12 November 1996, following the signature by Defence Ministers from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom of the OCCAR Administrative Arrangement.
www.vrede.be /nl/europa/eudef4.html   (3932 words)

  
 The European defence agency − reply to the annual report of the Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The management of European programmes would be assured by OCCAR, which has both a legal personality and the financial support of its members (through programmes such as the Airbus A400M transport aircraft), while the EA would only play a minor role.
But when it came to the most important phase − the practical implementation of the programmes defined by means of this process − it would hand over their management to a body outside the EU structures.
OCCAR has the advantage of three years of proven cooperation behind it, even though its ongoing programmes, with the notable exception of the A400M transport aircraft, are not of major strategic importance
assembly-weu.org /en/documents/sessions_ordinaires/rpt/2004/1856.html   (11900 words)

  
 Overseas Quality Assurance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
OCCAR's objective is to develop best practice in collaborative procurement, and to manage collaborative projects to exacting time, cost and performance targets.
The current OCCAR member nations, that are detailed on the DPA International Relations Group (IRG) web-site, have negotiated the OCCAR GQA Policy Document to govern the provision of GQA services for OCCAR by the nations.
OCCAR is not a NATO Agency and therefore cannot use STANAG 4107.
www.ams.mod.uk /ams/content/docs/quality/pages/oqa.htm   (2322 words)

  
 About OCCAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
OCCAR is the ONLY REALTOR® organization in Orange County focusing exclusively on the needs of the commercial/investment real estate specialist.
As a member of OCCAR you belong to an elite group of commercial real estate professionals including brokers, property managers, appraisers, title and escrow companies committed to providing ethical and knowledgeable service.
As a member of OCCAR, you are also a member of the California Association of REALTORS® (CAR), and the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), the largest trade organization in the world and have access to an array of dynamic and varied programs and services designed to enhance your real estate career.
www.occar.org /About.asp   (103 words)

  
 Nato Review
OCCAR is an inter-governmental agency, but not one belonging to Europe.
OCCAR’s job in this instance is to manage the contractor to make sure that aircraft are delivered at the required time and cost.
While no one would be obliged to turn to OCCAR for such management, OCCAR does this work well and would probably be interested in taking it on.
www.nato.int /docu/review/2005/issue1/english/interview_b.html   (2766 words)

  
 A400M Meets 1st Contract Milestone (Oct. 17)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The high standard of the work presented for the A400M was such that OCCAR had no difficulty in accepting it within only six weeks.
Such an achievement is a tribute to the exacting standards of quality inherent in the Airbus organisation and the result of close cooperation between Airbus Military and OCCAR, supported by the numerous working groups from the individual customer nations.
OCCAR, is the international body representing the customer nations and providing the contractual interface with Airbus Military.
www.defense-aerospace.com /produit/27348_us.html   (415 words)

  
 FLUG REVUE update: Week ending September 20, 1998
This treaty, once ratified, will give OCCAR the scope to develop its own procurement procedures, contract rules and regulations, helping it deliver joint programmes faster, cheaper and better - which is what our Smart Procurement initiative is all about.
OCCAR thus has the potential to act as a building block towards an eventual European Armaments Agency.
OCCAR (Organisme Conjointe de Co-operation en matiere d'ARmament) was formed in November 1996.
www.flug-revue.rotor.com /FRNews98/FR980920.htm   (2731 words)

  
 Army Technology - Boxer MRAV / GTK / PWV - Wheeled Multirole Armoured Vehicle
An industrial group, ARTEC GmbH, consisting of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall Landsysteme from Germany, and Stork of the Netherlands, is the prime contractor for the programme.
The first prototype, in German APC configuration, was rolled out to representatives of OCCAR and the participating nations in December 2002 and the first Dutch prototype, a Command Post version, was completed in October 2003.
A contract was signed in November 2004, between OCCAR (for Germany and the Netherlands) and ARTEC, for the bilateral continuation of the development programme.
www.army-technology.com /projects/mrav/index.html   (1022 words)

  
 RNS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The e3 billion contract was signed on Wednesday 12 November in Bonn at the OCCAR headquarters by OCCAR President Klaus Wendelin von Sperber and Guido Lami, Managing Director of Eurosam, the joint venture between MBDA and Thales.
OCCAR signed the contract on behalf of the French, Italian and UK Ministries of Defence.
Lahoud also noted the significance of the order, OCCAR's first major missile procurement contract, as marking MBDA's success in bringing about the highest level of defence co-operation in Europe by uniting the armed forces of France, Italy and the UK around a common equipment programme.
production.investis.com /baesystems/finnewsrns?id=1068717270nRNSM0215S   (624 words)

  
 OCCAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation ("OCCAR") was created in 1998 by the Farnborough Convention, signed by France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
OCCAR concretizes a new approach to European cooperation in the defence equipment field; its aim is to correct the shortfalls in current collaborations by creating a new type of organisation:
Currently, the OCCAR organisation manage seven armament programs; France takes part in six of them (A400M ; COBRA ; FREMM ; FSAF ; TIGRE ; ROLAND).
www.ixarm.com /imprimer_10122   (252 words)

  
 Stork NV
The European armaments agency, OCCAR, was represented by OCCAR´s Director, Dr Klaus von Sperber and the participating nations in the BOXER Programme were represented by Lord Bach, (Britain's Minister for Defence Procurement), Mr.
Referring to OCCAR and its part in managing the procurement for the national partners, he stated that OCCAR was created to improve the efficiencies of the Ministries of Defence in managing international procurement and to strive for more effective delivery of collaborative programmes.
He said that the OCCAR organisation fully recognises this tall order and underlined that neither OCCAR nor industry could manage this challenge alone and expect to win.
cws.huginonline.com /S/130797/PR/200212/885050_5.html   (891 words)

  
 Spain and France Launch Tiger HAD Development Work
OCCAR will act as the contracting authority for the Tiger HAD program.
The Director of OCCAR signed the agreement with the industrial partners in Toulouse, France.
At the end of October, OCCAR received the green light from the two countries in order to launch the development phase of the project.
www.deagel.com /news2?p=ns000143ot   (360 words)

  
 Airbus Military
The contract was signed in Bonn, Germany between Airbus Military and OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d’Armement), the procurement organisation representing the launch customers.
The single procurement contract for all 196 aircraft was signed by Dr. Klaus von Sperber, Director of OCCAR Executive Agency, on behalf of the launch customer nations, (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom), and Alberto Fernandez, Chief Executive Officer of Airbus Military.
By today's signature, the participating nations also agreed to act jointly through OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'Armement) in purchasing their fleets of aircraft.
www.airbusmilitary.com /pressrelease.html   (4983 words)

  
 Thales: Press releases: 2005/04/19: OCCAR and Thales sign Tiger 236 million euros simulator production contract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The contract calls for the supply of complete simulation facilities for Tiger aircrews at the EFA French-German Tiger training centre in Le Luc, France, and four operational units in France and Germany.
OCCAR* and Thales have announced the signing of a production contract, worth 236 million euros, for Tiger combat helicopter simulators.
The contract was signed in Bonn, Germany, on 16 March 2005 in the presence of representatives from Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH, Thales' German partner for the programme.
www.thales-is.com /services/news_tigre.html   (456 words)

  
 DFAIT - Non-Proliferation, Arms Control & Disarmament Division - Conclusion
According to the outgoing head of international cooperation at the Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (DGA), Jean Fournet, the biggest future challenge for the OCCAR is how to ensure work-share benefits for its participating states as the agency is expanding and increasing the range of program responsibilities.
Instead of applying a program-by-program proportional industrial benefits share, through the global return the OCCAR is set to allocate industrial work across a number of programs and years.
In a speech in Brussels on March 1 of this year, Javier Solana, the EU's High Representative for CFSP, said that agencies such as OCCAR were instrumental to the construction of the Common European Security and Defence Policy (CESDP).
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /arms/moens/e_conclusion-en.asp   (559 words)

  
 WEU Assembly Report 1623E
It is reasonable to assume that OCCAR will make more actual progress and might, therefore, become the focus for all those countries which are more willing to move towards integration.
In order to give OCCAR a legal status so that it is entitled to award contracts, the parliaments of member countries are in the process of ratifying the Convention recently signed in Farnborough.
These days, the main European armaments producers are grouped together in OCCAR and refuse to apply the principle of juste retour, which creates a major point of divergence between them and other European countries which have a less efficient defence industry to protect.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/e-1623.htm   (16180 words)

  
 Fancy Counter and Clock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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www.wt.net /WT.net/counter/451-475.htm   (148 words)

  
 Defence.com A400M Transport Aircraft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The A400M programme is a direct result of a commonly expressed need by the air forces of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom for a new generation military airlifter and are acquiring a toal of 180 aircraft.
These nations are represented by the Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d'Armement (OCCAR).
September 1997: Request for Proposal issued by OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d'Armement).
www.defence.com /prog5.aspx   (302 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The group, known by its French acronym OCCAR, is already managing a range of European defense programs that includes the production of helicopters, missiles and radars.
Last month, OCCAR attained legal status after ratification by its four founding members, Britain, France, Germany and Italy.
The move means OCCAR, basedi in Bonn, can place contracts directly with industry and streamline procurement.
www.kurdmedia.com /printarticles.asp?id=1050   (203 words)

  
 Research - Geography, Politics and Sociology - University of Newcastle
The establishment of OCCAR, the European multinational arms procurement agency raises interesting questions about its accountability and legitimacy.
This paper examines the arguments about methods of accountability deemed more appropriate for agencies like OCCAR than just examining traditional parliamentary accountability.
It then examines OCCAR through this lens of analysis.
www.ncl.ac.uk /geps/research/publication/32244   (130 words)

  
 Classified information - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Those countries would have to maintain the classification of the document at the level originally classified (TOP-SECRET, SECRET, etc.).
A European defence organisation, codenamed OCCAR, has three levels of classification: OCCAR SECRET, OCCAR CONFIDENTIAL, OCCAR RESTRICTED.
Facsimile of the cover page from an East German operation manual for the M-125 Fialka cipher machine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Classified_information   (1625 words)

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