Alan Agency, placed in Zagreb, was established by Government’s Act of Foundation, based on the Code on production, overhaul and trade of weapons and military equipment. Alan Agency is organized as a limited liability company, established for import and export of defence equipment and additional supervision of the defence equipment production for export.
By establishing Alan Agency the Government of the Republic of Croatia remained strict to the implementation of its transparent policy, keeping the defence equipment trade transparent and in accordance with adopted international
obligations (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Conventions concerning antipersonnel mines, conventional weapons with excessive injuries, chemical weapons and bacteriological and toxic weapons). Agency operates within the frame of these obligations and according to Croatian legislation which defines the production, trade and quality of products.
Basic tasks performed by Alan Agency:
• import and export of weapons and military equipment for Army and Police requirements;
• sale of army stock surpluses, that have become incompatible due to modernization of the Croatian Armed Forces;
• controlling the production of weapons and military equipment for export, by issuing the approval for production to Croatian producers, in consultation with the MOD;
• negotiating and stipulating contracts with foreign buyers for export deliveries (agency makes contracts for export production with Croatian producers;
• import and export of weapons and military equipment for commercial purposes;
• marketing and market research of production and trade of defence equipment, with assistance of the MOD expert team;
• consulting and agency for production and trade of defence equipment;
• agency for “offset” arrangements for production and trade of defence equipment.
Alan Agency co-operates closely with the Ministry of Defence (concernig import and export affairs and other military aspects) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (requesting comments and suggestions regarding the political situation for every special contract). Special attention is given to the implementation of offset arrangements in acquisitions of capital equipment. With its efforts in contracting the technology transfers and international technical co-operation, as well as implementing offset arrangements.
All of the incomes from exporting stock surpluses are reinvested into modernisation of the armed forces, which enables the development projects and creating new or improved systems.
