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The new EU Defence Procurement Directive

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This article provides a summary of the objectives and key provisions of the new EU Defence Procurement Directive. It considers the relationship between the new Directive and Article 346 TFEU and how the new Directive seeks to provide a procurement regime that is fit for the purpose of defence and security contracts, looking in particular at issues such as the procurement procedures available, new provisions on security of information, security of supply, R&D, sub-contracting and offsets.

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  1. Hogan Lovells, Avenue Louise 523, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Ciara Kennedy-Loest & Nicolas Pourbaix

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  1. Ciara Kennedy-Loest
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Correspondence to Ciara Kennedy-Loest.

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This article is based on a presentation given at the Annual Conference on European Public Procurement Law organised by ERA, held in Trier on 12–13 October 2009.

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Kennedy-Loest, C., Pourbaix, N. The new EU Defence Procurement Directive. ERA Forum 11, 399–410 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-010-0172-x

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