EMACON

The General Staff Joint Command (EMACON) is divided into:

• Headquarters.
• General Staff Joint Command Secretary (SEGEMACON in Spanish).
• Strategic Division (DIVESTRA in Spanish).
• Planning Division (DIVPLA in Spanish).

The Head of EMACON consists of the General Staff Joint Command Chief (JEMACON in Spanish) and its personal supporting bodies.

SEGEMACON is the body responsible for directly assisting JEMACON in the management of EMACON, as well as for the technical-administrative support to EMAD Headquarters bodies. It is also responsible for advice and support in those matters that, being under the responsibility of EMACON, are not specific to the Divisions that compose it. It will also act as Technical Secretariat of the Joint Action Support Headquarters.

SEGEMACON is composed of the following bodies, under the Secretary General:

• Coordination and Studies Office.
• Administrative Support Office.
• Normative Production Office.
• Documentation Centre.
• Drawing and Reprography Office.
• EMAD General Registry.

COORDINATION AND STUDIES OFFICE

Responsible for:

• Assisting JEMACON in its managerial responsibilities, especially supporting its coordination in the activities corresponding to the Divisions that are subordinate to it.
• Preparing for JEMACON the proposal for the monthly distribution of the EMAD units Special Dedication Complement (CDE in Spanish) and, when applicable, other extraordinary bonuses.
• Technical-administrative support and supervision of general support.
• Acting as EMAD Transparency Processing Unit.

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICE

Responsible for:

• Providing administrative support to EMACON, in particular through documentation control.
• Acting as a NATO/EU Control Point for SEGEMACON and for those Defence staff Headquarters’ bodies (CGEMAD in Spanish) that lack such point.

 NORMATIVE PRODUCTION OFFICE

Responsible for:

• Coordinating reports on regulatory projects required by other authorities
• Elaboration and organic regulation of the normative production that comes from EMAD.
• Entrusting those studies and reports that are deemed appropriate to other EMAD units when the matter falls within the specific tasks attributed by ORDEF 166/2015 to that unit.

DRAWING AND REPROGRAPHY OFFICE

Responsible for:

• Supporting all EMAD bodies regarding graphic design and specialised reprography.

DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

Responsible for:

• Registration and recording activities at a general level.
• Managing, within NATO, of national classified information, information from international organisations, mainly NATO/EU, and from other countries under the undersigned agreements for the protection of classified information.
• Developing EMACON's activities as coordination and control body for the NATO operational standardisation process, in coordination with its management bodies.
• Management of personal security authorisations.

EMAD GENERAL REGISTRY

Responsible for:

The Strategic Division (DIVESTRA in Spanish) is the EMACON body responsible for developing the Military Strategy and Armed Forces (FAS in Spanish) employment concept. It will be also responsible for developing and coordinating FAS´s position before International Security and Defence Organizations (OISD in Spanish), in which JEMAD has responsibilities; for planning, coordinating and controlling the activities derived from military relations of both bilateral and multilateral nature for which it is responsible; and for preparing military response options to support JEMAD in strategic operation planning and management.

DIVESTRA is composed of:

• Technical Secretariat
• Strategy and Strategic Plans Section
• International Relations Section
• Workforce Development Section

STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC PLANS SECTION

Responsible for:

• Supporting JEMAD in its advisory role to the Minister, on issues concerning the present and future of the military strategy and resulting plans.
• Considering the national and allied security framework, keeping updated the military strategy, and specially, establishing the strategic framework for military planning, together with its patterns of development and possible scenarios of action.
• Assisting in the tasks derived from managing crises, by supporting the political-military advice provided by JEMAD to the Minister of Defence and to the National Security Council.
• Leading the production and development process of the Military Planning Guidelines and preparing the Armed Forces Employment Concept.
• Keeping updated strategic analysis of the international security situation, identifying risks and threats, as well as possible strategic implications and changes of tendency, linking them with CIFAS and with the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies of CESEDEN.
• Preparing the military options presented to the Ministry of Defence (MINISDEF) by JEMAD, to be approved by the Government, by assisting the strategic planning and leading the operations. Performing, among other actions, Options for Military Responses and Initial Military Guidelines to establish the operational planning framework, as well as taking part in strategic operation revision.
• Planning and coordinating the national contribution to the multinational operational structures within the framework of International Security and Defence Organizations (OISD) through developing options for Military Responses and Initial Military Guidelines.
• Coordinating together with the National Military Representations before OISD, all those activities related with the previous duties, as well as keeping updated for the FAS the Catalogue of Rules of Engagement (ROEs in Spanish).

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SECTION

Responsible for:

• Advising about the directives, concepts, plans and other documents in process in those OISD where JEMAD has responsibilities, including the international multinational or bilateral structures of military nature in which Spain takes part.
• Preparing and coordinating the FAS´s position regarding the issues covered during NATO and EU military committees, and when determined, in other existing forums of those OISD, included within the scope of responsibility of JEMAD.
• Leading the development of JEMAD Guidelines regarding FAS contribution to the State´s external action, as well as proposing and coordinating guidelines related to national contribution to the structures of those organizations, in particular, by establishing criteria, priorities and entity of Spanish military personnel´s participation in the OISD.

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SECTION

Responsible for:

• Drafting the FAS Enlistment Report
• Issuing guidelines for reaching the enlistment level required for the Joint Force (FC in Spanish) as well as guiding its training, evaluation and certification.
• Developing criteria for designing scenarios and for planning, programming and conducting joint and combined exercises.
• Coordinating and controlling logistical aspects within its competence (advanced logistics) related to joint-combined exercises.
• Participating in the lessons learnt process together with the Operations Command (MOPS in Spanish) and the Joint Concept Development Centre (CCDC in Spanish); and in the development of priority operational concepts implemented in collaboration with the Joint Action Support Headquarters (JAAC in Spanish) and CCDC.
• Identifying the need of concepts for future operational environments to develop the military planning strategic framework.
• Taking part in the development of the CESEDEN research programme.
• Analysing and promoting the synchronization process of the joint perfection teaching with the needs of the operational structure developed in CESEDEN.

   

The Planning Division (DIVPLA in Spanish) is the EMACON´s body responsible for preparing and coordinating Force planning, developing duties related to the process of acquiring those material resources included within the JEMAD responsibility, and for guiding the transformation processes of FAS operational capabilities. It will be also responsible for preparing and coordinating FAS´s position before International Security and Defence Organizations (OISD) in the logistics domain.

DIVPLA is composed of:

• Technical Secretariat
• Force Plans Section.
• Resource Plans Section.
• Organization Section.

FORCE PLANS SECTION

Responsible for:

• Being integrated into the process of “Defence planning”, as stated in the pertinent Ministerial Order.
• Coordinating, developing and monitoring force planning in order to establish FAS Military Capabilities, as well as designing the Force´s Objectives in the long term.
• Cooperating in design and development of the Military Planning Guidelines.
• Coordinating national participation into the capability planning developed by International Security and Defence Organizations (NATO and EU) and within a multilateral framework.
• Obtaining a detailed definition of the joint capabilities identified in the process of force planning, through the specified directives.

RESOURCE PLAN SECTIONS

Responsible for:

• Coordinating the output process arising from the military capabilities approved within the Military Capabilities Objective (OCM in Spanish) and within its competence, according to MIRADO factors (material, infrastructure, human resources, training, doctrine and organization), by coordinating and validating its requirements and its subsequent control and monitoring.
• Planning, coordinating and controlling the logistical aspects within its competence, related to the provision of resources and FAS joint capabilities together with the responsibilities of being “host nation”.
• Participating in the different logistical centres included within its competence of those OISD of strategic and political-military level.
• Planning, coordinating and controlling the estimation of financial requirements at FAS disposal, oriented to planning of capabilities according to MIRADO factors.
• Planning the need of ordinary credits to be assigned to national seniors in international organizations and the need of Peacekeeping Operations (OMP in Spanish) credits in order to attend those CSI created within EMAD, except those from OMP controlled by MOPS, and providing guidelines for their management.
• Contributing and coordinating, when required, the procurement of military capabilities within OISD.
• Planning on infrastructures within EMAD
• Coordinating the operational and technical aspects regarding FAS usage of fuels, lubricants and associated products.
• Becoming part of the working body of the Boards of Weapons and Material and Lubricants and Fuels Programmes.
• Coordinating, through its NSIP (NATO Security Investment Program) Section, the Operational Management of Capabilities Packages (CP) NSIP, being also responsible, in coordination with all the bodies participating in the process, of the activities related to the CP processing within NATO.

ORGANIZATION SECTION

Responsible for:

• Conducting studies and proposals for standardization of armies´ organization and EMAD, in order to improve operational efficiency of the Armed Forces, and to unify all those services whose tasks are not exclusive of an army or EMAD.
• Compiling the EMAD´s organization structure reaching the level of detail of this Instruction and supporting the Human Resources Section in regard to the determination of its entity when creating templates.
• Encouraging, coordinating and controlling the regulations regarding organization, by activating the organic regulation process.
• Supporting SEGEMACON in global planning coordination, in the proper functioning of the organization operating under JEMAD and in the coordination with the regulations developed within the Ministry.