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green paper I posted for their benefit and so c ocked it up the
imp/exp documents...
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whole world know leow.
EU Green Paper: Defence Procurement
Source: European Commission
Ref: COM (2004) 608
Dated Sept. 17, released Sept. 23, 2004
The European Commission has published a consultative Green Paper on
how to improve cross-border competition in certain types of defense
procurement, in a way consistent with the special nature of the
sector.
EU law (Article 296 EC) does not require competition in procuring
supplies, works and services intended for specifically military
purposes and crucial to national security.
However, the Commission wants to help Member States to get better
value in the Euro 30 billion plus EU market for defense
procurement, and to help EU defense industries to be more
competitive, by providing guidance on how EC Treaty exceptions and
requirements should be interpreted.
The ideas set out in this report focus on opening national defense
procurement contracts to all EU companies for items that do not
raise national security issues, such as boots, uniforms, food and
other dual-use items.
The Green Paper assesses how the Commission might clarify in a
Communication the criteria to establish when procurement of
military equipment, services and works can be exempted from
competitive procurement requirements and when they cannot.
Full text
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/publicprocurement/docs/defence/com04-608_en.pdf
16 pages in PDF format
