European Union Military Committee
Coat of arms
Active	December 2000–present
Allegiance	European Union
Location	Brussels,Belgium
Website	europa.eu
Commanders
High Repr.	Kaja Kallas
Chairman	GeneralSeán Clancy
Insignia
Flag
Chairman's arms

TheMilitary Committee of the European Union (EUMC) is the body of theEuropean Union's (EU)Common Security and Defence Policy that is composed ofmember states'Chiefs of Defence (CHOD). These national CHODs are regularly represented in the EUMC in Brussels by their permanent Military Representatives (MilRep), who often are two- or three-star flag officers.

The EUMC is under the authority of the EU'sHigh Representative (HR) and thePolitical and Security Committee (PSC).

The EUMC was established in December 2000 by the European Council ofNice. It is one of several defence and security-related bodies established as a result of theHelsinki Headline Goal, which was decided in December 1999.

The EUMC gives military advice to the EU'sHigh Representative (HR) andPolitical and Security Committee (PSC). The EUMC also oversees theEuropean Union Military Staff (EUMS).

The relationship between theHigh Representative, theMilitary Staff andMilitary Committee as of November 2017:^[1]Colour key:
 High Representative (aVice-President of theCommission)
 Military Committee (EUMC; aCouncil body)
 Military Staff (EUMS; a Directorate-General of theExternal Action Service)

High Representative

ChairmanEUMC

Working Group

Working Group/Headline Goal Task Force

Director GeneralEUMS/ Director MPCC

Legal advisor

Deputy Director General

Horizontal Coordination

Assistant Chief of Staff for Synchronisation

EU cell atSHAPE

EU Liaison at theUN in NY

Assistant Chief of Staff for External Relations

NATO Permanent Liaison Team

Concepts & Capabilities Directorate

Intelligence Directorate

Operations Directorate

Logistics Directorate

Communications & Information Systems Directorate

Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) Chief of Staff Working Group Current Operations

TheEU command and control (C2) structure is directed by political bodies composed ofmember states' representatives, and generally requires unanimous decisions. As of April 2019:^[2]

Liaison:       Advice and recommendations       Support and monitoring       Preparatory work     

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Political strategic level:[5]

ISS

EUCO Pres. (EUCO)

Chain of command

Coordination/support

SatCen

CIVCOM

HR/VP (FAC)

INTCEN

HR/VP (PMG)

HR/VP (PSC)[6]

CEUMC (EUMC)

CMPD

DGEUMS[3] (EUMS)

Military/civilian strategic level:

Dir MPCC[3] (MPCC)

JSCC

Civ OpCdrCPCC[1]

Operational level:

MFCdr[4] (MFHQ)

HoM[1]

Tactical level:

CC[2]Air CC[2] Land CC[2] Mar Other CCs[2] European Armed Forces[3][4]

¹ In the event of a CSDP Civilian Mission also being in the field, the relations with theCivilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC) and its Civilian Operation Commander (Civ OpCdr), as well as the subordinate Head of Mission (HoM), are coordinated as shown.

² Other Component Commanders (CCs) andservice branches which may be established.

³ The MPCC is part of the EUMS and Dir MPCC is double-hatted as DGEUMS. Unless the MPCC is used as Operation Headquarters (OHQ), either a national OHQ offered by member states or theNATO Command Structure (NCS) would serve this purpose. In the latter instance,Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), rather than Dir MPCC, would serve as Operation Commander (OpCdr).

⁴ Unless the MPCC is used as Operation Headquarters (OHQ), the MFCdr would be known as a Force Commander (FCdr), and direct a Force Headquarters (FHQ) rather than a MFHQ. Whereas the MFHQ would act both on the operational and tactical level, the FHQ would act purely on the operational level.

⁵ The political strategic level is not part of the C2 structure per se, but represents the political bodies, with associated support facilities, that determine the missions' general direction. TheCouncil determines the role of theHigh Representative (HR/VP), who serves asVice-President of theEuropean Commission, attendsEuropean Council meetings, chairs theForeign Affairs Council (FAC) and may chair thePolitical and Security Committee (PSC) in times of crisis. The HR/VP proposes and implements CSDP decisions.

⁶ Same composition asCommittee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) II, which also prepares for the CSDP-related work of the FAC.

Member	CHOD	Member	CHOD	Member	CHOD
Chief of the General Staff of Austria	Major General Rudolf Striedinger [de] of the  Austrian Land Forces	Chief of Defence of Belgium	General Frederik Vansina of the  Belgian Air Component	Chief of Defence of Bulgaria	Admiral Emil Eftimov of the  Bulgarian Navy
Chief of the General Staff of Croatia	Colonel General Tihomir Kundid of the  Croatian Army	Chief of the General Staff of Cyprus	Lieutenant General Georgios Tsitsikostas of the  Cypriot Ground Forces	Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Republic	Army General Karel Řehka of the Czech Special Forces
Chief of Defence of Denmark	General Michael Hyldgaard of the  Royal Danish Army	Commander of the Defence Forces of Estonia	Lieutenant General Andrus Merilo of the  Estonian Land Forces	Chief of Defence of Finland	General Janne Jaakkola of the Finnish Army
Chief of the Defence Staff of France	Général d'Armée Aérienne Fabien Mandon of the French Air and Space Force	Inspector General of the Bundeswehr of Germany	General Carsten Breuer of the  German Army	Chief of the General Staff of Greece	General Dimitrios Choupis [el] of the  Hellenic Army
Chief of the General Staff of Hungary	Colonel General Gábor Böröndi of the  Hungarian Ground Forces	Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces of Ireland	Lieutenant General Rossa Mulcahy of the  Irish Army	Chief of the Defence Staff of Italy	General Luciano Portolano of the  Italian Army
Commander of the Joint Headquarters of Latvia	Major General Kaspars Pudāns of the Latvian National Guard	Chief of Defence of Lithuania	General Raimundas Vaikšnoras of the  Lithuanian Land Force	Chief of Defence of Luxembourg	General Steve Thull of the  Luxembourg Army
Commander of the Armed Forces of Malta	Brigadier Clinton J. O'Neill of the Armed Forces of Malta	Chief of Defence of the Netherlands	General Onno Eichelsheim of the  Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force	Chief of the General Staff of Poland	General Wiesław Kukuła of the Polish Territorial Defence Forces
Chief of the General Staff of Portugal	General José Nunes da Fonseca [pt] of the  Portuguese Army	Chief of the General Staff of Romania	General Gheorghiță Vlad of the  Romanian Land Forces	Chief of the General Staff of Slovakia	General Daniel Zmeko of the Slovak Ground Forces
Chief of the General Staff of Slovenia	Lieutenant Colonel General Robert Glavaš of the Slovenian Ground Force	Chief of the Defence Staff of Spain	Admiral General Teodoro Esteban López Calderón of the Spanish Navy	Chief of Defence of Sweden	General Michael Claesson of the  Swedish Army

The EUMC is chaired by aGeneral Officer,Admiral, orAir Officer of four-star level (i.e. NATOOF-9 equivalent), who is selected by the Chiefs of Defence and appointed by theCouncil of the European Union. For a term of three years the chairman is the spokesperson for the EUMC. He participates in PSC meetings as appropriate, he is the military adviser to theHigh Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR) who heads the EEASEuropean External Action Service, he represents the primary point of contact with the Operation Commanders of the EU's military operations, and he attends Council meetings with defence and security implications.^[5]

• Common Security and Defence Policy
• European External Action Service
• Military of the European Union
• Political and Security Committee
• European Union Military Staff
• NATO Military Committee

Asimilar committee also exists within theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Those countries which are members of both EU and NATO have in most cases chosen to use the same MilRep in both organisations.

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