UPN, Alm.del - 2010-11 (1. samling)

NATOBackground on Agency ReformNATO has currently 14 NATO Agencies and they all provide essential capabilitiesand services to NATO Armed Forces. With the reform agreed today, NATO agencieswill achieve greater synergy between similar functions. The reform also aims tomake agencies work more efficiently and effectively.By this reform, agencies will be organized along 3 major programmatic themes:Procurement, Support and Communications and Information.Agency Reform has also the potential to ultimately bring significant savings, in particularwith regard to overhead costs and sharing of support services.With the implementation of Agencies Reform, all the functions currently performed byNATO Agencies will be transferred to new bodies. At the same time, the reform will beguided by the principle that critical capabilities will be delivered throughout the change tothe new structure and the provision of services to ongoing operations will be maintained.Therefore, this reform will ensure an orderly transfer of responsibilities from the current tothe new agencies.The new Agencies' structure will build upon the existing one:

Headquarters for the NATO Support Agency will be in Capellen Luxembourg (site ofthe current NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency – NAMSA).The NATO Communications and Information Agency Headquarters will be in Brussels,as will the very small staff which will design the new NATO Procurement Agency.The current NATO Standardization Agency will continue and be subject to review bySpring 2014.

Those existing Agencies which are managing multinational procurement programmes, likeEurofighter and NATO Helicopter for the 90s (NH90) will, when arrangements are inplace, become Programme Offices in the new NATO Procurement Agency. They willremain in their current locations, near their industrial partners, at least initially.Sourcewww.nato.int