2004. pants

The responsibility as Lead Nation will rotate as will be

mutually decided within the MCG.

7.5 Norway is the Lead Nation for Camp Banski Rid (FYROM).

7.6 It is a national responsibility to deploy and return units

and equipment to their respective home countries. The Troop

Contributing Nations (TCNs), in consultation with Comd MNB(C),

are responsible for deployment and redeployment planning and

execution.

7.7 Each Participant bears the responsibility for ensuring the

provision of logistic support for its forces allocated to the

MNB(C), unless other provisions are made in this MOU or

subordinate TAs or IAs.

SECTION EIGHT -

FINANCIAL

ARRANGEMENTS

8.1 Each Participant has financial

responsibility for its own forces including:

a. Pay and allowances for its own forces, including civilian

components.

b. All costs, including accommodation, travel and other expenses

arising out of business performed by their forces, including the

civilian component away from MNB(C).

c. All costs arising from the deployment, sustainment and

re-deployment of forces to and from the Theatre.

d. All costs related to a TCNs guests and visitors.

e. All costs for commitments for exclusive national use.

8.2 Annex E outlines the authority, responsibilities and task of

the Financial Management Board (FMB) and provides detailed

information on the financial arrangements, accounting and

auditing procedures, including arrangements for reimbursement, to

be implemented between the Participants.

8.3 Each Participant retains the ownership of its own resources.

Jointly owned assets and property will not exist unless two or

more Participants expressly consent. Any such assets and property

jointly acquired under this MOU will be disposed of in a manner

decided by consensus between the respective Participants.

8.4 If another Participants´s assets are used, the borrower must

comply with the lender's regulations (certificate etc). Necessary

training and competence for this should be individually

documented.

SECTION NINE -

LOGISTICS

AND MEDICAL

SUPPORT

9.1 General. Participants will

ensure that adequate CSS support is provided to sustain their

contributions to MNB(C) in support of OPLAN 10413 - JOINT

GUARDIAN.CSS is a national responsibility, except where a

multinational arrangement is accepted upon by mutual consent

between the Participants. Irrespective of these specific

arrangements, Comd MNB(C) retains the task of co-ordinating all

logistic support within MNB(C), as set out within OPLAN 10413 -

JOINT GUARDIAN and, in extremis, the ability to re-distribute and

prioritise logistic tasks.

9.2 Logistic

Concept. CSS operations within MNB(C) will be conducted by

a mixture of national and multinational logistic

troops who will work in both steady state peace

support operations and during periods of heightened tension.

Across MNB(C), the prioritisation of CSS will be set to meet Comd

MNB(C)'s plan and will be directed by MNB(C) staff. If tension

rises, or a higher state of readiness is declared, the

Participants should be prepared to provide additional resources

including stocks. Comd MNB(C) will have the authority to request

additional CSS capability and force protection accordingly.

9.3 UK ISR Task

Force. Logistics and administrative support will be

provided to the UK ISR Task Force by the MNTC and MNMP as

mutually accepted between the Participants. The UK contribution

to these MN units reflects the commitment to provide such

support.

9.4 Medical

Concept. Provision of medical support to MNB(C) forces is

a national responsibility. Planning and co-ordination of

emergency response cover within the MNB(C) AO will reside with HQ

MNB(C) as mutually determined between the Participants.

SECTION TEN -

CLAIMS

AND

LIABILITIES

10.1 The Participants will waive

claims against each other for damage to property owned or used by

the Participants, and injury to personnel whilst employed by the

MNB(C). This waiver will also apply between the Participants

during transportation to and from the mission area. If, however,

such damage results from the reckless acts or reckless omissions,

wilful misconduct or gross negligence of a Participant, its

personnel or agents, the cost of any liability will be borne by

that Participant alone. This waiver does not cover training in

the Participants' territory or any third party claims arising

from a Participant's use of a vehicle belonging to one of the

other Participants. In the case of vehicle claims, the claim will

be settled by the Participant deemed to be responsible for the

cause of the claim.

10.2 Each Participant will be responsible for third party claims

for damage arising out of its own acts and omissions and the acts

and ommissions of its personnel.

10.3 Where two or more Participants are jointly liable for damage

to a third party, the Participants involved will be jointly

responsible for settling the claim.

10.4 In situations where it has been certified that the damage

has been caused by MNB(C), but the responsible Participant(s)

cannot be identified, the Participants will be jointly and

severally responsible. This will not apply to a Participant who

clearly can not have caused the damage.

10.5 Claims mentioned in Para 10.3 and 10.4 will be processed by

Comd MNB(C) in accordance with MNB(C) SOIs and decided on a case

by case basis by the Participants involved.

SECTION ELEVEN -

PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION AND SECURITY

11.1 All classified information

and material exchanged or generated in connection with this MOU

will be used, transmitted, stored, handled and safeguarded in

accordance with the Participants' applicable national security

laws and regulations, to the extent that they provide a degree of

protection no less stringent than that provided for NATO

classified information and material as detailed in the document

"Security Within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation",

C-M(2002)(49) dated 17 June 2002 and subsequent

amendments".

11.2 Classified information or material will only be transferred

between the Participants, and only through

Government-to-Government channels or through channels approved by

the Designated Security Authorities (DSAs) of the Participants.

Such information will bear the level of classification and denote

the country of origin. For information originating in HQ MNB(C),

NATO regulations apply, classification in accordance with KFOR

regulations.

11.3 Each Participant will take all lawful steps available to it

to ensure that classified information or material provided or

generated pursuant to this MOU is protected from further

disclosure unless the other Participant(s) consent to such

disclosure. Accordingly, each Participant will ensure that the

recipient(s) of such information:

a. Will not release the classified information or material to any

government, national organisation or other entity of a third

party without prior consultation with the originating

Participant.

b. Will not use the classified

information or material for other than the purposes provided for

in this MOU.

c. Will, in accordance with its national law, comply with any

distribution and access restrictions on classified information or

material that is provided to them in connection with this

MOU.

11.4 The Participants will investigate all cases in which it is

known or where there are grounds for suspecting that classified

information or material provided or generated pursuant to this

MOU has been lost or disclosed to unauthorised persons. Each

Participant will also promptly and fully inform the other

Participants of the details of such occurrences, and of the final

results of the investigation and of the corrective action taken

to preclude recurrences.

11.5 All Participants will appoint an appropriate person or

persons to safeguard classified information or material

pertaining to this MOU, at any site or facility where it may be

used, who will be responsible for limiting access to such

classified information or material involved to persons who have

been properly approved for access and who have a strict

need-to-know.

11.6 All requests for information regarding a specific

Participant will be referred to that specific Participant.

SECTION TWELVE -

NATIONAL DECLARATIONS

AND

RESTRICTIONS

12.1 Details of any National

Declarations and Restrictions are recorded at Annex F.

12.2 The Participants will inform HQ MNB(C) of any amendments to

their National Declarations and Restrictions.

SECTION THIRTEEN

-

MODIFICATIONS,

DISPUTES AND DISTRIBUTION

13.1 The Participants will enter

into consultations and, where necessary, review this MOU when the

overall operational conditions change due to alterations in the

mandate or due to other circumstances.

13.2 This MOU, including all or any of the Annexes, may be

amended at any time with mutual consent of the Participants and

through exchange of letters. Any amendments will be proposed by

the Participants within the MCG. In addition, Comd MNB(C) may

propose amendments through the MCG.

13.3 Any dispute regarding the interpretation or application of

this MOU or the annexes will be resolved first between the

Participants at the lowest possible level, and if no solution is

found, the dispute will be transferred to higher levels up to the

MCG as the highest level. No dispute will be referred to any

national or international tribunal or third party for

settlement.

13.4 The Participants will be responsible for their own national

distribution of the MOU. Copies of this MOU will be distributed

to SACEUR and HQ KFOR, via the Chairman of the MCG.

13.5 Additional nations may be invited to participate in this MOU

by mutual consent of the existing Participants and will do so by

providing either a Note of Accession (acceding to the full

provisions of this MOU) or a Statement of Intent (acceding to the

provisions of this MOU but with National Declarations) to the

Chairman of the MCG.

SECTION FOURTEEN

- ENTRY INTO EFFECT, DURATION AND TERMINATION

14.1 This MOU will enter into

effect on the day of the last signature of the Participants. It

will remain in effect whilst the MNB(C) is in existence, or until

and including 30 April 2004. It may be prolonged with mutual

consent of the Participants within the MCG.

14.2 This MOU may be terminated at any time by

mutual consent of the Participants within the MCG. Any

Participant may withdraw from the MOU by giving a three (3)

months written notice to the other Participants.

14.3 In the event that this MOU is terminated or expires:

a. The provisions of Section 8 (Financial Arrangements), Section

10 (Claims and Liabilities) and Section 13 (Modifications,

Disputes and Distribution) will remain in effect until all

outstanding payments, claims and disputes are settled.

And

b. The provisions of the Section

11 (Protection of Classified Information and Security) will

remain in effect until all such classified information and

material is either returned to the originating Participant,

destroyed in accordance with the instructions of the originator

or declassified by the originator.

SECTION FIFTEEN

- SIGNATURES

This MOU is signed in eight (8)

copies, one (1) for each Participant, in the English language

only.

Annexes:

A. Extant Arrangements between the Participants.

B. Definitions.