ANNEX 4 - IMPORTANT ACRONYMS
| CFSP | Common Foreign and Security Policy | 
| CJEF | Combined Joint Expeditionary Force | 
| CSDP | Common Security and Defence Policy | 
| E2I | European Intervention Initiative | 
| EATC | European Air Transport Command | 
| EDA | European Defence Agency | 
| EDC | European Defence Community | 
| EDF | European Defence Fund | 
| EDIDP | European Defence Industrial Development Programme | 
| EDTIB | European Defence Technological and Industrial Base | 
| EFP | Enhanced Forward Presence | 
| EUBG | European Union Battlegroup | 
| EUMS | European Union Military Staff | 
| FCAS | Future Combat Air System | 
| FGB | Franco-German Brigade | 
| HR/VP | High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission | 
| ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations | 
| MGCS | Main Ground Combat System | 
| MPCC | Military Planning and Conduct Capability | 
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation | 
| NRF | NATO Response force | 
| OCCAR | Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation | 
| OSCE | Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe | 
| PADR | Preparatory Action on Defence Research | 
| PESCO | Permanent Structured Cooperation | 
| R&D | Research and Development | 
| R&T | Research and Technology | 
| SACEUR | Supreme Allied Commander Europe | 
| SACT | Supreme Allied Commander Transformation | 
| SHAPE | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe | 
| TEU | Treaty on European Union | 
| TFEU | Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union | 
| UNSC | United Nations Security Council | 
| WEU | Western European Union | 
 
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                            