The Joint Support Coordination Cell (JSCC) is the planned security and defence (CSDP) body of the European Union's (EU) European External Action Service (EEAS) that will provide for relations between the civilian and military planning and conduct capabilities, abbreviated CPCC and MPCC, respectivly, in the context of civilian and military missions missions.[1]
The MPCC and CPCC will both provide staff for the cell and ensure sharing of expertise in the areas of mission planning, conduct and support. Without prejudice to the tasks performed by the existing Mission Support Platform, the JSCC would bring together the following joint support functions (to be further developed on the basis of lessons learned), such as:
The chiefs of the staff of the MPCC and CPCC will coordinate the daily work of the civil/military teams of the JSC, who would be co-located to the extent possible in order to ensure achievement of the proposed synergies. Administratively they would remain part of the MPCC / EUMS or the CPCC respectively, and the civilian and military lines of command would remain separate and distinct.
This will allow for very concrete synergies in the operational planning and conduct of civilian and military missions, for example on issues like force protection, premises, medical support, CIS and Cyber and other logistics. The respective financial and other relevant regulations will be respected. The lessons and achievements of the now de-activated EU Operations Centre will be used to the full extent.
Guidelines for concrete civ/mil synergies at both the political strategic level and during the operational planning and conduct are outlined in Annex 2. These will be further developed based on experience gained.
The EU command and control (C2) structure is directed by political bodies composed of member states' representatives, and generally requires unanimous decisions. As of April 2019:[2]
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