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 "title": "Netherlands to Join OCCAR as Seventh Member State — Both Chambers Approve the Accession The Hague Shelved in 2002",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/netherlands-to-join-occar-seventh-member-state-both-chambers-approve-accession-shelved-2002/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/netherlands-to-join-occar-seventh-member-state-both-chambers-approve-accession-shelved-2002/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-10-20T18:40:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-10-23T18:41:10.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBonn, 20 October 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * The Netherlands is to become the seventh member state of OCCAR, the organisation that manages European cooperative armament programmes, on 1 January 2027, it was announced at OCCAR's 25th-anniversary event at the Petersberg near Bonn on 20 October\n * The Tweede Kamer, the lower house, passed the bill approving the OCCAR Convention and the OCCAR Security Treaty (36952) without a vote on 10 September; the Eerste Kamer adopted it and notified the",
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