The Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the Council’s replies to questions put by the Committee on Defence Questions and Armaments in a note dated 21 February 1956. The Secretary-General points out that the Council can only reply to questions within its remit and cannot reply to those for which the individual Member States are responsible or those that encroach on the powers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in the military field. With regard to the activities of the Standing Armaments Committee (SAC), the Council notes that the SAC acts on a case-by-case basis to improve methods of consultation and coordination in the sphere of armaments. On the matter of the armaments currently under review, production problems and the possibility of a division of labour will be considered as soon as all or some Member States approve the joint adoption of such weapons or some of their elements.