Brussels, 02/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - The question of sharing and pooling resources will be the main subject of the meeting of the chiefs of staff of the EU in Brussels this Tuesday 3 May. Continuing the work started at the informal meeting of the defence ministers in Ghent last September (EUROPE 10222), the chiefs of staff of the EU may, during their meeting, succeed in identifying initial concrete cooperation projects. The debate will be fed into by contributions from experts of the “Crisis Management and Planning Directorate” of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Defence Agency (EDA) and NATO's Allied Command Transformation, who will also attend the meeting. It will, however, be up to the member states to determine which of their military capability they are prepared to share. In most cases, it will be an extension of existing multilateral projects or the launch of new bilateral or trilateral ones. Any decisions made will be confirmed on 24 May by the defence ministers of the EU. The capabilities which are easiest to pool (as defined by the ministers in Ghent) include logistical resources, strategic and tactical transport, training, surveillance, maintenance, information and re-fuelling. The first session of the meeting will be given over to operations. The chiefs of defence of the EU will be briefed, by the respective operations commanders, on the latest developments with the three military operations currently being carried out by the EU: the Althea mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR Althea), the naval anti-piracy operation of the EU off the coast of Somalia (EU NAVFOR Atalanta) and the mission to train Somali security forces in Uganda (EUTM Somalia). (A.By./transl.fl)