Director General of the European Union Military Staff

Director General of the European Union Military Staff
EUMS coat of arms
Incumbent Lt. Gen Esa Pulkkinen since 2016
European Union Military Staff
Reports to	High Representative, Military Committee
Seat	Kortenberg building, Brussels, Belgium
Term length	3 years
Inaugural holder	Rainer Schuwirth
Formation	2001
Deputy	Deputy Director General of the European Union Military Staff
Website	eeas.europa.eu

The Director General of the European Union Military Staff (DGEUMS) is the head of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS) who also serves as Director of the Military Planning and Conduct Capability. This position, which was established in 2001, is held by a three-star general, since 2016 Lieutenant General Esa Pulkkinen.^[1]

Task

The Director General is responsible for the EUMS' work in providing strategic advice to the High Representative (HR), reporting to the European Union Military Committee (EUMC) - representing member states' Chiefs of Defence - and performing "early warning", situation assessment and strategic planning.

Since 2017 DGEUMS has also served as Director of the Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), and as such assumes the function of the single commander for all non-executive military missions of the European Union (EU), exercising command and control over the current three training Missions and other possible future non-executive military Missions. EU officials have indicated that a review in 2018 might extend the mandate of the MPCC, and thereby the Director General, to also include executive missions.^[2][3]

The CSDP command structure involving the High Representative, the Military Staff and Military Committee as of 1 November 2017:^[4] Colour key:
     High Representative (a Vice-President of the Commission)
     Military Committee (a Council body)
     Military Staff (a Directorate-General of the External Action Service)

High Representative

Military Committee Chairman

Working Group

Working Group/Headline Goal Task Force

Military Staff Director General

Legal advisor

Deputy Director General

Horizontal Coordination

Assistant Chief of Staff for Synchronisation

EU cell at SHAPE

EU Liaison at the UN in NY

Assistant Chief of Staff for External Relations

NATO Permanent Liaison Team

Directorate A: Concepts & Capabilities

Directorate B: Intelligence

Directorate C: Operations

Directorate D: Logistics

Directorate E: Communications & Information Systems

Military Planning and Conduct Capability Chief of Staff Working Group Current Operations

List of holders

List of Directors General

	Name	Photo	Nationality	Term began	Term ended
1.	Lt Gen Rainer Schuwirth		Germany	2001	2004
2.	Lt Gen Jean-Paul Perruche		France	2004	2007
3.	Lt Gen David Leakey		United Kingdom	2007	2010
4.	Lt Gen Ton van Osch		Netherlands	2010	2013
5.	Lt Gen Wolfgang Wosolsobe		Austria	2013	May 2016
6.	Lt Gen Esa Pulkkinen		Finland	May 2016	-

Deputy

DGEUMS is assisted by the Deputy Director General and the Chef of Staff (DDG/COS, a two-star general).^[5]

List of Deputy Directors General

Name	Photo	Nationality	Term began	Term ended
Rear Admiral Bruce Williams		United Kingdom	2011	2015
Rear Admiral Waldemar Głuszko		Poland	2015	2017
Major General Giovanni Manione		Italy	2017	-

See also

• High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
• Chairman of the European Union Military Committee
• Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
• Supreme Allied Commander Europe

References

External links

External video

Change of command ceremony on 28 May 2013, YouTube video

Change of command ceremony in 2016, YouTube video

Official website

• CV of Director General Pulkkinen, Europa.eu