Cooperates in planning, organizing, coordinating and executing protocol tasks of domestic programs, events and delegations abroad - travelling and reception - rising from the bilateral and multilateral international relations built by the leaders of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF).
Mission: The Force Planning Directorate is a part of the Defence Staff command structure executing specific tasks related to planning and development of Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) capabilities.
Training Management of the Hungarian Defence Forces at strategical and joint level including:
HUN Defence Staff CIS and IS Directorate is under the direct OPCOM of the CHoD. The CIS and IA Directorate carries out its duties based on the approved organisational and operational regulations:
The main tasks and responsibilities of the directorate are the next:
Legal status of Hungarian Defence Forces General Staff Logistics Directorate (J-4)
The J-4 is a MoD department level organization, which is directly subordinated to the HDF Chief of Defence (hereinafter CHOD). The activity of the J-4 is controlled by the CHOD. The J-4 is headed by the Chief of Directorate and consists of three different branches: Logistics, Operation Support and Planning Branch.
The Hungarian Defence Forces, General Staff, Operational Directorate is the staff organization responsible for the intelligence, operations and operational planning at the national military joint strategic (HU General Staff) level (HU GS JS2/JS3/JS5), as well as the supervision of the arms of the army. The main tasks of the organization are as follows:
The role and responsibilities of the Controlling Department are:
The Department for Economic Planning and Regulation is responsible for the coordination of economic planning within the Ministry of Defence (MoD), including short and long term resource planning and the yearly budget planning. The task of budgetary planning is carried out in coordination with the Ministry for National Economy.
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.
As a part of its preparation for the Presidency – complementary to the central training programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Office – the Ministry of Defence has developed a ‘CSDP EU Presidency Training Strategy’ for the staff of the Ministry. In order to prepare the members of the staff directly involved in the tasks of the Presidency the Ministry of Defence organises a series of Presidency seminars with the aim of providing information useful for presidency work by lectures given by Hungarian and foreign experts.
Hungary, as part of the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency, will take over the Presidency of the European Union in the first semester of 2011. The Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian team is the third Trio Presidency in the EU’s history; however, it is the first one to work in the framework provided by the Lisbon Treaty. The 18-months joint Trio Programme adopted by the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency ensures the achievement of long term goals beyond the scope of a single Presidency semester.