Movement Coordination Centre Europe

[1] The main purpose of the MCCE is coordinating and optimising the usage of military and charter airlift, sealift and land movement assets of the armed forces of the member countries.

[2] The genesis of the MCCE began in 1999 when the EU and NATO identified shortfalls in military capability as the world emerged from a cold war environment into a more dynamic expeditionary operational era.

At the same time, projects were created to generate additional capacity: Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) and Strategic Air Lift International Solution (SALIS)[3] (its centre is co-located in the MCCE) for airlift, and Multinational Sealift Steering Committee (MSCC) for sealift.

MCCE is open to all governments whose membership is unanimously accepted by all the other participant nations, regulated by a specific legal technical agreement.

MCCE aims to provide for its member nations the most effective coordination of multinational and multimodal strategic lift requirements and air-to-air refuelling against opportunities, in order to maximize the most efficient use of resources, thereby increasing the confidence and visibility of strategic movement plans.

For its members, it represents the aim to avoid wasted capacity on missions, the opportunity to improve joint capabilities and precise, multi-modal plans.

In return, the member nations will submit offers based on their strategic availability and assets to support the request.

These debits and credits are accrued or reduced based on the mission, distance, cargo, and mode of the movement.

The MCCE Working Board (WB) decides and controls Routine Business related issues.It consists of a representative from each of the participating nations.