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EDIP–SAFE–STEP as a Single Eligibility Architecture

What does EDIP–SAFE–STEP as a Single Eligibility Architecture reveal about European defence funding, eligibility and procurement?

Europe’s defence market is becoming an institutional market: contracts, funding and scale are increasingly determined by legal eligibility.

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Platform publication · DFM Analysis report · 2026-06-13

Europe’s defence market is becoming an institutional market: contracts, funding and scale are increasingly determined by legal eligibility, supply-chain constraints and sovereignty rules, not by generic claims of technological excellence. It clarifies the concrete tests that matter: where a company is established and managed, who controls it, how its bill of materials is composed, and whether its design authority is free from external restrictions.

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EDIP–SAFE–STEP as a Single Eligibility Architecture

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