On 11 December 1973, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Standing Armaments Committee (SAC) circulates a note that sets out the SAC’s activities in the field of armaments cooperation. The conclusions indicate that the SAC has yet to find its true field of action and has lacked initiative alongside the various bodies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and bi- and trilateral collaboration. The SAC’s activities have not been carried out effectively enough to satisfy the Member States, despite the flexibility of its procedures and the technicality of the problems to be resolved, which could have made it the ideal forum for European consonance on armaments matters.