The MPCC is rapidly advancing on its road to full operational capability in 2025. Their organization is growing and their procedures are sharpened through a demanding series of exercises, the so-called MILEX exercises. The foundation of all this is a good situational awareness of the mission areas. To make the next step, the intelligence department of MPCC recently received several software tools based on open sources. The new tools enhances the MPCC capability of detecting, monitoring, and assessing emerging crises requiring a specific Military CSDP response. During MILEX24 the new tools were used and showed their usefulness.

MPCC

The establishment of the MPCC is part of the broader ongoing work to strengthen the EU’s security and defence in line with the implementation of the EU Global Strategy of 2016. The MPCC is a permanent command and control structure at the military strategic level. Since June 2017, MPCC is responsible for the operational planning and conduct of non-executive missions. It was created in the broader framework of strengthening civil/military cooperation, and hence in line with the principle of avoiding unnecessary duplication with NATO.
The MPCC enhances the capacity of the EU to react faster and more efficiently to a conflict or crisis, where EU troops are deployed in
close coordination with other Common Security and Defence Policy and EU actors in the respective country or region.
 

In the EU Strategic Compass (2022) the MPCC, once it reaches its full operational capability in 2025, is described as the preferred military strategic level command structure able to plan, control and command non-executive and executive tasks and operations, as well as live exercises.