{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-513/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/513",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2019/513 of 26 March 2019 on the security framework for the European Defence Industrial Development Programme",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-513",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision (EU) 2019/513\nof 26 March 2019\non the security framework for the European Defence Industrial Development Programme\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 249 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe European Defence Industrial Development Programme (hereafter ‘the Programme’) is the programme for 2019-2020 for the capability development window of the European Defence Fund.\n(2)\nCommission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444 shall apply to the handling of classified information in the Programme.\n(3)\nGiven 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,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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