Resumen de The Tailor-Made EU defence and security procurement Directive: limitation, flexibility, descriptiveness and substitution

Martin Trybus

• Can the EU Defence and Security Procurement Directive 2009/81 open the defence procurement markets of the Member States and thus contribute to the establishment of an internal defence equipment market? Ultimately this depends on its implementation and application in practice. However, if national security concerns are sufficiently accommodated in the Directive, the use of the armaments exemption in art.346 TFEU will be reduced and defence and security procurement will be conducted to a larger extent "inside" the instrument and thus the internal market. This article will discuss the techniques the EU legislator used to adapt the Directive to defence and security needs: limitation, flexibility, descriptiveness and substitution. It will be argued that overall a tailor-made Directive for defence has been provided.