39th MCJSB Allied Joint Doctrine Working Group Meeting

The EOD COE representative Mr Peter DUDRA participated in the 39th AJOD Working Group meeting held in NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium, from 06 to 09 MAY 2019. The aim of the AJOD WG meeting was to enhance NATO forces interoperability through the provision of joint operational level doctrine that included the development, review and harmonization of Allied joint publications (AJPs) and advise the Military Committee on Allied joint doctrine topics and issues. 

The Military Committee Joint Standardization Board provided direction and guidance to working groups and confirmed that the priorities for doctrine validation in 2019 on exercises TRIDENT JUPITER and TRIDENT JACKAL includes AJP-3.18 Allied Joint Doctrine for Explosive Ordnance Disposal. 

NATO COEs Doctrine Activities were presented by ACT including the EOD COE support to NATO Explosive Ordnance Disposal Doctrine and Standard Development activities. The ACT also provided Allied Joint Doctrine Campaign Plan update including schedules for future reviews of AJPs. As a result, the AJP-3.18 is to be reviewed in 2021/2022, starting the revision in 2020, AJP-3.18 is main doctrine for EOD support to operations and overall ambition of EOD COE is to take over the custodianship over this, for NATO the most important EOD publication.

The event was beneficial for the EOD Community of Interest and the AJOD WG Chairman, Colonel Marek KOTOWSKI thanked representatives participating the WG for their efforts. As it was also the Chairman’s last meeting, the MCJSB representative thanked for his outstanding performance and invaluable input to Allied doctrine development efforts. The next WG meeting will be held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2019.