Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation

OCCAR

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• About the organization
• The flag
  • Former flag

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• European organizations and movements

About the organization 

The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) is a European intergovernmental organisation which facilitates and manages collaborative armament programmes between the nations of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and non-EU member Turkey (for the Airbus A400M).
OCCAR was established on 12 November 1996 by the Defence Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Legal status was not achieved, however, until January of 2001 when the parliaments of the four founding nations ratified the OCCAR Convention.

Zoltán Horváth, 28 February 2010

The flag

The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation was rebranded on 6 November, 2025.
The coloured drops above the OCCAR name represent the five domains in which OCCAR works in namely SEA, LAND, AIR, SPACE and CYBER.

The new flag is white with the new logo on the white background.

Simona Opitz-Becker, Communications Officer for OCCAR, 20 November 2025

Former flag

Iimage by Zoltán Horváth, 5 March 2010

[The former flag was] light blue with 13 stars placed in an arc, 9 yellow (representing the EU, and four dark blue (other members). Proportion is 2:3.
Image of flag: http://www.occar-ea.org/media/raw/OCCAR_BP_02_10.pdf (page 10)

Zoltán Horváth, 28 February 2010