On 17 January 1955, the Secretary-General of the Interim Commission of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the memorandum by the French Government on armaments production and standardisation dated 3 January 1955. The French Government sets out its view on armaments production and standardisation and presents its plan to set up an armaments agency within Western European Union (WEU). The role of this agency would be to organise the joint production of the armaments needed to equip the forces of WEU placed at the disposal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). In order to function smoothly, it would require the support of governments inspired with the same purpose and determination to achieve the economic and rational organisation of arms production. The aim of these proposals is to prepare for the meeting of 17 January 1955 of the WEU working party responsible for examining these matters.