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On July 20, 2006, during the meeting held in Madrid, the CIMIN (High Level Interdepartmental Committee), declared EUROGENDFOR operational, issuing the following statement:

"The CIMIN (High Level Interdepartmental Committee), which is the decision making body and the political-military direction board for EGF(European Gendarmerie Force), is pleased to announce that EGF is now operational and prepared for intervening in some crisis management operations. EGF will continue to develop its capabilities in order to improve its level of readiness and to undertake more demanding operations in the future.

This decision has been adopted after having assessed the results of the last EGF exercise, named EGEX 06, recently carried out simultaneously in Valdemoro (Spain) and Vicenza (Italy), where the EGF HQ showed its capability to plan and conduct one or more police missions, one of which assumes a Command deployed in a international crisis management operation, including five national platoon-size Units deployed in the theatre of operations.

France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands, all of whom possess police forces with a military status, have committed themselves through the Declaration of Intent signed in Noordwijk (The Netherlands) on 17th September 2004, to join in the creation of the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF), providing Europe with a full capability to conduct all police missions in crisis management operations, in order to contribute to the development of the European Security and Defence Policy and to the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice.

Since the EGF was born, the main milestones of its history have been, apart from this very last exercise EGEX 06, a previous one carried out in Saint Astier (France) in 2005 at Command Post level, and the setting up in Vicenza (Italy) of the multinational, modular and projectable EGF Permanent HQ, which was officially opened on 23rd January 2006.

Once the EGF has been declared operational capable, now the CIMIN Presidency, held by Spain during this whole year 2006, is to inform the different International Organizations, under the aegis of which the EGF can be deployed (EU, UN, NATO, OSCE, etc.) that the EGF is at their disposal in order to undertake a first real crisis management operation."

Author: EGF Press and Public Information Off

EGF Hand over Ceremony (26/06/2007)

Handing Over Of Command Of The European Gendarmerie Force

Colonel Giovanni Truglio (Italian Carabinieri) replaces Brigadier General Gérard Deanaz (French National Gendarmerie)

On June, 26, a formal ceremony was held in Vicenza at the “G. Chinotto” barracks, seat of the EGF Permanent Headquarters. At the presence of civilian and military authorities of CIMIN and its Presidency, as well as of representatives of the EGF participating Countries, Brigadier General Gérard Deanaz (French National Gendarmerie), first EGF Commander, was replaced by Colonel Giovanni Truglio (Italian Carabinieri) who, appointed by the High Level Interdepartmental Committee, will cover the position and direct the Permanent Headquarters until 2009.

The Hand over ceremony between General DEANAZ and Colonel TRUGLIO was held on 26th June 2007 in Chinotto Barracks (VIcenza - Italy)

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