On 29 May, the French Minister of Defense, Mme Florence Parly, was presented the progress of the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) programme in Brest, France.

Even under these challenging circumstances, OCCAR continues to deliver to its Programme Participating States.

Belgium and Germany have launched a new Programme within OCCAR, the Night Vision Capability Programme, that aims to procure this type of equipment for both nations' Armed Forces.

The first Interoperability Functional Qualification Review (FQR) of the ESSOR Programme was successfully conducted on 17 and 18 December 2014 in Gdynia (Poland).