The main tasks of the Defence Planning Department are the elaboration of the strategic guidance regarding military capability development – especially the Defence Ministerial Guidelines concerning defence planning - ; contribution the elaboration of strategic documents regarding teh NATO defence procedure and the EU capability development process.
The Defence Policy Department of the Hungarian Ministry of Defence operates under the supervision of the Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy and Planning. The tasks undertaken by the department include:
Tasks of the Administration Section:
Performs its duties under the direct control of the State Secretary.
Its purpose:
The department is under the direction of the Head of the Cabinet.
Within its sectoral training programme for the preparation of the EU Presidency, the Ministry of Defence organised its third presidency seminar on April 28 where well-known foreign and security policy experts outlined their opinions on the relation of the Hungarian national interests and the forthcoming Hungarian EU Presidency.
The Ministry of Defence – in order to foster the co-operation within the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency as well as to prepare for the Hungarian EU presidency – will delegate a liaison officer to the Belgian Ministry of Defence for the period of the Belgian Presidency in the second half of 2010.
The second round of the MoD’s sectoral Presidency training seminars was organised by the Defence Policy Department on 31st March, 2010.