page_title: European Gendarmerie Force
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: European Gendarmerie Force / Structure
context_page_description: The European Gendarmerie Force is an operational, pre-organised, robust, and rapidly deployable intervention force, exclusively comprising elements of several European police forces with military status of the Parties in order to perform all police tasks within the scope of crisis management operations, as established by Art.1 of the Treaty establishing the European Gendarmerie Force.
  The EGF was launched by an agreement in 2006 between five member states of the European Union: France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Romania joined in 2009; Poland in 2011. Its status is enshrined in the Treaty of Velsen of 18 October 2007. The headquarters are located in Vicenza, Italy.
  The EGF is presently not established at the EU level; it is for instance not a project of the Permanent Structured Cooperation of the CSDP. The EGF may however contribute in the implementation of the CSDP, when made available as a multinational force in accordance with article 42.3 of the Treaty on European Union.
context_section_description: The EGF is based in Vicenza, in northeastern Italy, and has a core of 800 to 900 members ready to deploy within 30 days.
  An additional 2,300 reinforcements are available on standby.
caption: EGF members.