Simplifying legal procedures and removing formal barriers at borders and improving communication infrastructure are part of the European Commission's proposal to facilitate the movement of allied troops across EU borders in crisis situations. “Military mobility is an absolutely crucial issue for safety strategy,” says Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish.
A package of solutions has been presented present in Brussels to improve the mobility of troops within the EU. "The fast movement of European armed forces is essential for European defence. We request to be certain that the right forces will be in the right place and in the right time," said Kaja Kallas, head of European Union diplomacy, during the conference. The proposals include the creation of a "military Schengen area" to facilitate movement of soldiers and military equipment across EU borders.
Kallas in her speech referred to the last acts of diversion on the Polish railway and stated that they indicated the request for investment in improving military mobility in Europe. Expanded country-specific bureaucracy and infrastructure difficulties make military transports in the EU frequently gotta wait for a twelve days to pass. According to Andrius Kubilius, Commissioner for Defence in the EU, now the average time taken to decide on military travel permits in EU countries is 10 days, but there are countries that take up to 45 days.
So what changes do the European Commission propose to improve the situation? The draft EC Regulation provides for the creation of a European strategy Reinforced consequence to Military Mobilitywhich will velocity up procedures and improve customs formalities. According to him, during peacetime, the state will have 3 days to give consent or refuse to travel the troops.
On the another hand, in an emergency, associate States will be able to launch an emergency mode that allows NATO units to be moved into the EU without having to be authorised, then a notification sent six hours before the transfer will suffice. In addition, a national coordinator is to be appointed in each of the 27 EU countries and there will be harmonised documentation.
The European Commission has besides highlighted another problem, namely European roads, bridges and railway lines, which it believes are not adapted to the movement of dense military equipment. The EU so wants to focus on improving the most delicate points of European infrastructure. As published present in the Communication, along the 4 main transport corridors to decision allied troops, 500 specified points have been identified jointly with associate States. Their improvement will require around €100 billion. "These targeted and short-term investments will lead to a fast improvement in the functioning of corridors and must be implemented as a priority", the EC indicated.
EU officials besides want to address the shortage of military transport. The way to avoid it is to make a alleged solidarity pool that individual countries could benefit from as needed. These include rail platforms, medical wagons or ammunition vehicles. "We want associate States to voluntarily study to the solidarity pool the military transport capacity they have. erstwhile a crisis occurs, another countries will be able to ask for and take advantage of these opportunities, as Kubilius explained today.
At the same time, the EU Defence Commissioner ensured that the EU would not compete in the field of military mobility with NATO or duplicate the Alliance's efforts. He besides said that while working on the draft regulation, the EC was in constant contact with NATO representatives.
The issue of military transport was besides raised present at a press conference in Jachrance by Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. “Military mobility is an absolutely crucial issue for the safety strategy,” said the head of the MON. As he said, if there is no freedom of movement for vehicles and allied soldiers, and administrative approvals on this substance should be waited for weeks, it is hard to talk about giving each another military assistance.
"It is essential to harmonise the laws and administrative procedures for allowing allies to pass through our territory or another European countries. It is simply a key issue for NATO to adopt regulations on this issue," added the head of the MON.
The EC proposal will now be debated by the associate States of the European Union.
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