Translation of "Boîte de combat électronique de la Force terrestre " (French → English) :

E. whereas more and more frequently residential areas, hospitals and city infrastructure, including water and electricity plants and schools, are targets of the military actions of the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and other armed formations; whereas according to the report from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights of 15 June 2014, 356 people – of whom 257 were civilians, including 14 children – have been killed since the Ukrainian Government began its military operation in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk; whereas cities under siege are short of food, water and medication; whereas there is evidence that landmines and ph ...[+++]osphorous bombs have been used; whereas according to UN data about 160 000 refugees have fled the fighting; whereas according to the UN there are considerable gaps in the State’s ability to protect internally displaced persons;

24. Notes the fact that EU battlegroups have never yet been deployed and considers that their existence will be difficult to justify over time; stresses that they constitute an important tool for timely force generation, training and rapid reaction; welcomes the decision to address this issue during the December Summit; is convinced that the EU should dispose of high-readiness standing battle forces, with land, air, naval, cyber and special forces components and a high level of ambition; underlines the fact that EU battlegroups should be deployable for all types of crises, including climate-driven humanitarian crisis; favours a more ...[+++] flexible and targeted approach to enhance the response and adaptability to different crisis situations, and to improve modularity in order to close gaps during the initial phases of the launch of CSDP operations without, however, compromising the operational capacity of the battlegroup as a whole;

24. Notes the fact that EU battlegroups have never yet been deployed and considers that their existence will be difficult to justify over time; stresses that they constitute an important tool for timely force generation, training and rapid reaction; welcomes the decision to address this issue during the December Summit; is convinced that the EU should dispose of high-readiness standing battle forces, with land, air, naval, cyber and special forces components and a high level of ambition; underlines the fact that EU battlegroups should be deployable for all types of crises, including climate-driven humanitarian crisis; favours a more ...[+++] flexible and targeted approach to enhance the response and adaptability to different crisis situations, and to improve modularity in order to close gaps during the initial phases of the launch of CSDP operations without, however, compromising the operational capacity of the battlegroup as a whole;

A possibility of a central electronic mailbox monitored by an anti-counterfeiting specialist would enable these requests to be checked and, where justified, transmitted via the Community Risk Management system to anti-counterfeiting specialists in Member States and also to major ports/airports/land frontiers.

The most illustrative one is the increased use of combat clothing as dress of the day by the majority of land personnel, and the elimination of garrison dress in an effort to rationalize Army dress and eventually reduce costs.

But, as you've already heard from the Chiefs of the navy, army and air force, it takes time to train an enthusiastic recruit into a combat-ready member of the Forces and our schools are at capacity.