NATO: History of Common Budget Cost Shares
Abstract
NATO member states provide resources to support the alliance in two ways. First, countries, at their own expense, maintain forces and assets that they pledge to NATO through a defense planning process. Second, countries make contributions to NATO'S three commonly funded budgets. These three budgets are the civil budget, which primarily funds the civilian headquarters and personnel in Brussels, Belgium, for NATO's political structure (about $164 million planned for 1999); NATO's military budget, which primarily funds operations and maintenance for its military headquarters and activities (about $720 million planned for 1999); and the NATO Security Investment Program (NSIP) budget, which primarily funds infrastructure improvements (about $734 million planned for 1999). Each member contributes an established percentage of each budget Changes to the cost share require alliance consensus, as do all decisions in NATO. Appendix I identifies the apportionment of current cost shares to NATO members for each of the common budgets.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA348222
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office