A new legal capacity for Eurocorps

Strasbourg (France), 27th March 2008

Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, who took over the command of the Eurocorps on September 21st, 2007, signed a document to open a bank account chargeable to the EUROCORPS.

During a ceremony at the bank headquarters in the Wacken quarter of Strasbourg, the CIC (Crédit Industriel et Commercial) regional director, Mr HAGENBACH, officially handed over to General PITARCH the first cheque book made out to the name of the Eurocorps.

This action is a strong symbol of the legal capacity provided by the Treaty of Strasbourg once ratified.

The Eurocorps will have the necessary financial autonomy to quickly take steps in a multinational framework such as NATO’s headquarters.

The Eurocorps is prepared, as soon as the treaty is ratified, to assert all its new prerogatives.

The Eurocorps will thus have the legal capacity (article V of the treaty) to ‘contract, purchase, sell and take legal actions’.

 

Pictures: OR3 FERNANDEZ

 

 

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