EDIP Eligibility and the New Geometry of European Defence Supply Chains
How design authority and the 65% component-origin rule are redefining industrial control in European defence
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About this report
The European Defence Industry Programme marks a shift in the way the European Union links defence funding to industrial sovereignty. Its eligibility rules do not only ask whether a company is established in Europe.
They also test where critical components originate, who controls the product design, who owns the relevant intellectual property, and whether European actors can modify, sustain, substitute and export defence systems without dependence on third-country permissions. The result is a new compliance and industrial perimeter that may affect primes, subcontractors, investors and governments across the defence value chain.
Key questions this report answers
- How do EDIP eligibility rules test component origin, design control, IP ownership and the ability to modify, sustain, substitute and export without third-country permissions?
- Why is design authority the decisive filter in the eligibility architecture?
- What are the methodological limits of the 65% rule and the hardest dependencies in practice?
- What compliance consequences and open questions does EDIP create for primes, subcontractors, investors and governments?
Inside this report
- Legal perimeter and strategic meaning
- The eligibility architecture
- Why design authority is the decisive filter
- The 65% rule and its methodological limits
- The hardest dependencies in practice
- Judgement compliance consequences and open questions
Who it's for
Bid, compliance and advisory teams working with EU defence funding and procurement instruments, and the counsel who support them.
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