NATO
Logistics
Handbook
October 1997
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Chapter 9: Production Logistics
Western European Armaments Group (WEAG)
923. The WEAG is a non-NATO group composed of all
the European members of the Alliance, which replaced
the Independent European Programme Group (IEPG) dissolved
in 1992. It is placed under the aegis of the Western European
Union (WEU). The WEAG meets at ministerial level at least once a
year. It is charged with the development of closer
armaments cooperation, and its main objectives are:
- to permit the most efficient use of funds for
research, development and procurement;
- to increase standardization and interoperability
of equipment;
- to maintain a healthy European defence industrial
and technological base; and
- to encourage a better balanced two-way street in
armaments cooperation between Europe and North America.
Since 1996, the WEAG is complemented by a Western
European Armaments Organization (WEAO), with similar
membership, which has statutory authority to pursue cooperative
defence research projects among participating nations.
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