Management
The Agency is monitored and managed in three ways.
- Head of the Agency: Responsible for overall organisation and functioning, ensures implementation of guidelines and decisions, chairs ministerial meetings of Steering Board. Currently, High Representative Catherine Ashton
- Steering Board: The agency's decision making body, composed of the defence ministers of participating Member States together with a representative of the European Commission and led by the Head of the Agency
- Chief Executive: Head of staff and responsible for supervision and co-ordination of units. Currently Madame Claude-France Arnould.
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