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STANAG 6023

STANAG 6023 training and education for peace support operations

Defence training providers and contractors whose tasking or contract invokes ATrainP-1

STANAG 6023 is NATO's agreement for participating nations to ratify and implement ATrainP-1, Edition D, the Allied publication on training and education for peace support operations.

Edition
5
Published
2019-03-14

What it is

STANAG 6023 is a NATO Standardization Agreement, not a training curriculum in its own right. It is the mechanism by which participating nations commit to implement ATrainP-1, Edition D, the Allied publication that actually carries the training and education standard for peace support operations. Anyone looking for what the training itself covers needs ATrainP-1; this cover does not describe it.

Why the agreement exists

The STANAG states its aim as responding to interoperability requirements: a common training standard and "a common knowledge about tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) particularly required for peace operations and not being basic soldier tasks", a common base for combined operations, and reduced friction and duplicated effort among NATO nations and operational partners in peace support operations.

What participating nations agree to

"Participating nations agree to implement the following standard": ATrainP-1, Edition D. Nations examine their own ratification of the STANAG and advise NATO's Standardization Office (NSO) of their implementation intentions, providing their actual implementation details. Those national decisions and responses are recorded in the NATO Standardization Document Database (NSDD). Partner nations sit outside this ratification process and are invited separately to adopt the standard.

Reporting, not certification

Once a nation has ratified, it implements ATrainP-1 "in accordance with their ratification responses" and is invited to report its effective implementation of the STANAG in the format set out in AAP-03. Partner nations report their adoption the same way. There is no accredited body, notified body or customer audit named anywhere in this cover: what exists is a reporting chain running from nations to the NSO, and a periodic review of the STANAG itself at least once every five years, with proposed changes routed through a standardization proposal to the tasking authority.

Where this sits among related documents

This edition (Edition 5, 14 March 2019) supersedes Edition 4. Alongside ATrainP-1, the cover lists STANAG 2606 (which covers ATP-3.2.1.1, guidance for tactical stability activities and tasks), STANAG 2181 (which covers AJP-3.4.1, Allied joint doctrine for the military contribution to peace support), and STANAG 2611 (which covers AJP-3.4.4, Allied joint doctrine for counter-insurgency). None of these are requirements this STANAG imposes; they are named as related reading. AAP-03 supplies the format nations use for the implementation and adoption reporting described above.

How we help

STANAG 6023 is nations' agreement to implement ATrainP-1, not a specification a training provider builds a system against. Where it reaches a contractor is in evidencing that the training actually delivered, and the records kept of who received it, line up with whatever training and education requirement a tasking or contract invokes, typically ATrainP-1 itself or the related doctrine this cover lists alongside it.

ComplyTrain holds that kind of evidence trail: the procedures describing how training against a required syllabus is delivered, the training records for who completed it and when, and the audit trail an inspecting body or customer would ask to see. It does not decide whether ATrainP-1 applies to a given contract, does not deliver the training itself, and does not report a nation's ratification or implementation status to the NSO.

The applicable tier, and which standards come with it, is set by the contract and the customer's quality clause, not by us. Use the standards explorer to see what sits alongside ATrainP-1, and talk to us about what your training-record evidence needs to look like.

Standards it references

Questions

Is STANAG 6023 mandatory?

It has no general answer. A STANAG binds a nation once that nation has ratified it, and a supplier meets it only where a contract or tasking invokes the standard it covers, ATrainP-1. Whether it applies to a given piece of work is set by the contract, not by the STANAG existing.

What is the difference between STANAG 6023 and ATrainP-1?

STANAG 6023 is the agreement: nations' commitment to implement a standard. ATrainP-1 is the standard itself, the Allied publication that carries the actual training and education content for peace support operations. The STANAG cover describes no training content of its own.

Can an organisation be certified against STANAG 6023?

No. The cover names no certification scheme, accredited body or notified body. What it describes is nations reporting their implementation or adoption to NATO's Standardization Office, and a periodic review of the STANAG, not a certification an organisation can hold.

What happened to the previous edition?

Edition 5, dated 14 March 2019, supersedes Edition 4. The STANAG is reviewed at least once every five years, and any nation or NATO body may propose a change at any time for the next review.