Finabel
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Finabel member states marked blue
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| Motto | Reflexion serving military action |
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| Formation | January 1, 1953 |
| Type | Intergovernmental organisation |
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Membership
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21 EU member states |
| Website | http://www.finabel.org |
Finabel is an organisation promoting cooperation and interoperability between the national armies of the member states of the European Union (EU). Founded in 1953, Finabel is controlled by the member states' army chiefs of staff, and the organisation's work agenda consists of studies and working groups. Finabel has a relatively small permanent secretariat. The studies carried out by Finabel take the form of reports resulting from studies entrusted to the working groups, agreements relating to the military characteristics of equipment, as well as conventions that standardise procedures, testing methods and glossaries in order to facilitate exchanges between member states.
The Finabel coordination committee is a land forces organisation comprising 21 Member states of the European Union with a view to promote interoperability between the land forces of its Member states. Membership is open to all of the Member states of the European Union
The organisation was founded in October 1953 under the acronym FINBEL by the Army Chiefs of Staff of France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, and then became Finabel with the arrival of Germany (Allemagne) in 1956, shortly after West Germany was rearmed in 1955. Later, the name has been kept as a proper noun, written in lower-case, when membership further expanded. Finabel was founded by armies which belonged to both NATO and Western European Union.
Initially, French was the official language. In the 2000s the use of English increased progressively and since 2011 is the language used across all levels. The Finabel Committee’s initial task focused on cooperation between armament programms. This task quickly developed into the harmonization of army doctrines.
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