The Defence Planning Committee was a former senior decision-making body on matters relating to the integrated military structure of NATO. It was dissolved following a major committee review in June 2010 and its responsibilities absorbed by the

North Atlantic Council The North Atlantic Council (NAC) is the principal political decision-making body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), consisting of permanent representatives of its member countries. It was established by Article 9 of the North ...

. and the Defence Policy and Planning Committee (DPPC)

Highlights

The Defence Planning Committee (DPC) was the ultimate authority on all questions related to

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

’s integrated military structure. It was formed following a

Ministerial meeting in Ottawa in May 1963. The DPC met for the first time on October 10, 1963 to prepare a Defence review. The DPC provided guidance to NATO's military authorities and oversaw the force planning process. Following the withdrawal of France from the integrated military command, the DPC was delegated greater mandate over the integrated military command, and gained the same level of authority as the North Atlantic Council (NAC) and the Nuclear Planning Group on matters within its competence. When it was dissolved in 2010, its responsibilities were absorbed by the NAC. It provided guidance to NATO's military authorities and oversaw the force planning process. The force planning process identifies NATO's military requirements, sets planning targets for individual countries to contribute to those requirements, and assesses the extent to which members meet those targets and provide other forces and capabilities to the Alliance. Momentarily, just before being dissolved, all member countries were represented on the DPC. However, between 1966 and April 2009,

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was not represented on this committee as a consequence of its withdrawal from the integrated military structure. France announced their return to full participation at the 2009 Strasbourg/ Kehl Summit.

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