PRESS RELEASE (94)124              7th December 1994


     NACC/PFP WORKSHOP ON MATERIEL, TECHNICAL
AND OPERATION STANDARDIZATION - 8-9 DECEMBER 1994


     A NATO Workshop with Cooperation Partners will be held
at NATO Headquarters on 8th and 9th December 1994. The
Workshop will be sponsored by NATO's senior defence
equipment body - the Conference of National Armaments
Directors - and by the Military Agency for Standardization.

     The workshop will be opened by the NATO Assistant
Secretary General for Defence Support, Mr. Robin Beard, who
has already described the event as "an important activity in
the field of defence equipment standardization and
interoperability".

     The purpose of the Workshop is to provide Partners with
a comprehensive introduction to Alliance philosophy and
approach to standardization, to include the roles and
working methods of NATO organizations active in this field.

     About 75 officials reponsible for materiel, technical
and operational standardization fron Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain,
Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, as
well as from SHAPE and the Partnership Coordination Cell in
Mons, will begin a dialogue on the challenges facing NATO
and Partner nations in the pursuit of interoperability
within the framework of Partnership for Peace.

     For further information, please contact Mr. A.F. van de
Grampel, NATO Defence Support Division, tel:Int'l 
32-2-728.41.03.