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EU Parliament: directive on building a genuine and transparent EU arms market, airplanes and military means

Strasbourg, France - The export of defence related products: military equipments as well as sub-systems, components, spare parts, technologies

"The European Union should create a genuine single market for defence equipment. This is the aim of a directive on the transfer of defence-related products. Parliament adopted a first-reading deal which strengthens provisions to guarantee the security of transfers, notably with respect to the final recipients of products or components, inter alia to ensure that arms and other defence-related products...

fra/pec - 1097816
Rome, Italy, 12/16/2008 17:52
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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