European Maritime Force (EUROMARFOR or EMF) is a Maritime Multinational Force, able to carry out naval, air and amphibious operations and its composition depends on the assigned mission. EUROMARFOR was born in 1995 when France, Italy, Portugal and Spain agreed to create a tailored force in order to fulfill missions defined in the Petersberg’s Declaration, such as sea control, humanitarian missions, peacekeeping operations, crisis response operations (pre-emptive deployment, maritime patrolling, mine clearing, etc) and peace enforcement.

Dedicated in priority to European Union (EU) (the force is included in the EU Force Catalogue at the minimum level of a task group with the capacity to provide a deployable high readiness maritime headquarters as a Maritime Component Command (MCC)), EUROMARFOR can be deployed either in a NATO environment, acting as part of the European branch of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), or acting upon the mandate of other international organisations, such as United Nations (UN), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) or any other multinational coalition.