Introductory text
United Kingdom
Commission Decision (EU) 2019/513
of 26 March 2019
on the security framework for the European Defence Industrial Development Programme
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 249 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
The European Defence Industrial Development Programmef1 (hereafter ‘the Programme’) is the programme for 2019-2020 for the capability development window of the European Defence Fund.
(2)
Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444f2 shall apply to the handling of classified information in the Programme.
(3)
Given the specificities of the Programme and the role of Member States therein, Member States on whose territory the beneficiaries are established may classify foreground information generated in the performance of a development action, setting up a security framework to this end before the signature of the grant agreement,
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Footnotes
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Established by Regulation (EU) 2018/1092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 establishing the European Defence Industrial Development Programme aiming at supporting the competitiveness and innovation capacity of the Union's defence industry (OJ L 200, 7.8.2018, p. 30).
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Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444 of 13 March 2015 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information (OJ L 72, 17.3.2015, p. 53).