NATO Use of Civil Standards

Pilot workshop “NATO use of civil standards” was organized based on the Alliance “Action Plan on Strengthening Education and Training on NATO Standardization”. Hosted by the Hellenic Armed Forces, the workshop was focused on stressing the preference of using civil standards over military – as one of the biggest challenge in NATO standardization communities.

The workshop was organized in Athens, Greece, from 25 to 27 February 2020 and was attended by more than 120 delegates from 26 nations, including 5 COEs.

The theme of the workshop was “Bridge the Gap – Civil as possible, Military only as necessary”. Main aim of the workshop was to provide awareness on how to adopt civil standards for NATO needs, to explain procedures how to develop new dual use standards in collaboration with civil standard developing organizations and finally to foster relationship between defense and civil standardization communities.

The EOD COE was represented by LTC Milan JANKURA from transformation support department.