Depth and diversity of a competitive EDTIB: SMEs in defence The European Defence Agency Pieter Taal...

Depth and diversity of a competitive EDTIB: SMEs in defence

The European Defence Agency

Pieter TaalAssistant Director, Industry &

Market Directorate

Berlin | 22 October 2009

2© European Defence Agency 2009 www.eda.europa.eu

Development of defence capabilitiesin the field of crisis management

Strengthening DTIB for the creation of an

internationally competitive European Defence Equipment Market

Enhancement of effectivenessof European

Defence Research and Technology (R

& T)

Promotion & enhancement of European armaments

cooperation

Mission and Functions

“… to support the Council and

the Member States in their effort to

improve the EU’s defence capabilitiesin the field of crisis

management and to sustain the ESDP

as it stands now and develops in

the future.”


EDA Organisation


EDA’s integrated Strategies

CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN(CDP)

Identification of priorities for capability improvement & opportunities to pool/cooperateEUROPEAN DEFENCE R&T STRATEGY

(EDRT)Identification of key defence technologies to be preserved or developed and step change in R&T collaborationEUROPEAN DEFENCE TECHNOLOGICAL

AND INDUSTRIAL BASE STRATEGY (EDTIB)

Identification of key industrial capacities to be preserved or developed (or otherwise to source from wider world market)EUROPEAN ARMAMENTS STRATEGY

New formulas for achieving more and more effective collaboration


I&M Strategy

Creation & development of an international transparent

and competitive European Defence

Equipment Market (EDEM)

Supporting the restructuring and strenghthening the

European Defence Technological

and Industrial Base (EDTIB)

In close coordination with Member

States, EU Commission, LoI/Framewo

rk Agreement, Industry and Academia

Strong and competitive EDEM and EDTIBfundamental underpinning of ESDP






















Supporting the restructuring and strenghthening of the







Intergovernmental Regime on Defence Procurement

Governments Industry

> 1M€Art. 296 TEC

Code of Conduct

Exclusions & ExceptionsExclusions & Exceptions

Fair competition in Supply Chain

Prime responsible for the selection

Promotes opportunities where it is efficient, technically and financially appropriate

No threshold

Code of Best Practice in the Supply Chain

A vonluntary non-binding approach

Fair and equal treatment of suppliers

Mutual transparency and accountability

Mutual support Mutual benefit

Single portal:Electronic

Bulletin BoardEBB1 > G2I EBB 2 > I2I

Increase transparency and competition in the EDEM


Deliverables in the EDTIB area

Identify what kind of EDTIB we want and how we should get there?

Characteristics of the future EDTIB 1. Capability Driven2. Competent3. Competitive

Key actions for Governments:

Clarifying priorities Consolidating demand Increasing investments Ensuring Security of Supply Increasing competition and

cooperation

Roadmaps

Key Industrial Capabilities

Security of Supply Increase competition Depth and diversity


EDTIB Strategy

“the future success of the EDTIB in Europe will depend upon effective utilisation of potential and innovation wherever these are to be found in Europe – in SMEs, and in suppliers not always associated with defence, and in new Member States”

EDTIB Depth and Diversity Roadmap

EDA to develop in close dialogue with pMS and industry support measures aimed at

making SMEs prosper further in a European scale market

Depth and diversity of the European suppliers’ base


SB agreed on developing a number of measures aimed at supporting increased

involvement of SMEs and non-traditional suppliers in the EDTIB:

Enhancement of the CoC and CoBPSC by:

•deciding on a new publication threshold for the EBB, in support of SMEs, at the next SB taking

into account the final version of the new Directive on defence procurement;

•sMS informing during the tendering process on Governments’ subscription to the CoBPSC;

NAD SB 15 October 08


NAD SB 15 October 08

Developing contracting policies to enhance SMEs opportunities to win contracts in R&D/R&T projects and programmes

questionnaire to pMS to identify national practices;

study on R&D/R&T contracting policies in support of SMEs;

Developing Guidelines for simplification and harmonisation of procurement and contracting processes for lower value contracts, addressing:

– lower national contract advertising thresholds;

– standardised qualification criteria for certification of suppliers;

– harmonisation of tendering time limits;

– difficulties resulting from contracting in different languages;

– protection of SME owned IPR.


Agreed by SB NAD on 9 October 09

Set of recommendations for pMS authorities

Applies to national procedures

Guidelines for facilitating SMEs’ access to the defence market

“Chapters”:

•Access to information

•Procurement - general issues

- language- certification- lower value

contracts

• Intellectual Property Rights

•R&T- related policies


Explore the scope for standardising the criteria for certification of suppliers

(article 46 of the new defence procurement directive)

Implement support measures for clustering and partnering of companies around EDA projects and programmes:

• Launching ‘biz-to-biz’ events to support cross-border consortia building and raise

awareness of business opportunities, especially related to EDA JIPs;

• Developing an armaments cooperation driven IT platform to enable Industry to propose

solutions to pMS priorities set out in the CDP or from other priorities/EDA initiatives,

and to find partnering companies;

Way ahead

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