EDIP Eligibility in Practice
Documentary, Ownership and Supply-Chain Requirements for Tier-2 and Tier-3 Suppliers under Regulation (EU) 2025/2643
This report provides a legally rigorous, regulation-anchored analysis of eligibility requirements under Regulation (EU) 2025/2643 establishing the European Defence Industry Programme, with specific focus on Tier-2 and Tier-3 suppliers participating in Union-supported defence industrial actions as recipients, contractors, or subcontractors. It systematically extracts and reconstructs the binding legal conditions governing establishment, executive management location, ownership and control, component-origin thresholds, supply-chain constraints, and design authority requirements, and translates them into an operational compliance framework supported by clearly identifiable documentary evidence. The analysis distinguishes strictly between mandatory legal provisions and deductive legal-risk inferences derived directly from the Regulation’s wording, avoiding policy interpretation or non-binding sources. Structured as an audit-ready compliance manual, the report is intended to enable mid-tier and lower-tier economic operators to assess eligibility exposure, prepare defensible documentation, and understand exclusion triggers embedded in the Regulation, relying exclusively on binding EU law currently in force.