Exclusion of Security-Conflicting Third Countries from Defence Supply Chains under EDIP

Regulatory scope and legal basis
EDIP embeds a direct supply-chain exclusion rule in Article 10 by conditioning Union-supported actions on the origin of components and by introducing a security-based sourcing prohibition. Where procurement is carried out pursuant to Articles 11, 13 and 35 and is supported by Union funding, the cost of components originat…