General
- Setting up OCCAR with clear agreed principles was a big step towards achieving cost-effective and efficiently managed collaborative equipment Programmes.
- The move away from prescriptive national work allocations on single Programmes, and its replacement by global balance, is a significant step forward.
- The OCCAR nations have renounced the principle of “juste retour”, moving away from the strict application of “cost share equals work share”.
- OCCAR founding principles include the potential for other nations to become members. Any application for membership is subject to the specific approval of the Board of Supervisors (BoS) and is dependent on the applying nation fully ratifying the OCCAR Convention, by accepting all existing OCCAR principles and rules and by its participation in a major collaborative programme managed by OCCAR.
- OCCAR-EA has currently four locations: Headquarters in Bonn, one site in Paris, one in Toulouse and one in Rome . The total number of OCCAR-EA staff members is about 240.
