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EU Directive on defence and sensitive security procurement The Directive provides rules that enhance transparency and openness in defence markets between EU countries, while also ensuring that individual countries' security interests are protected.

The CSDP is the main policy framework through which Member States can develop a European strategic culture of security and defence, address conflicts and crises together, protect the Union and its citizens, and strengthen international peace and security.

The CSDP involves the deployment of military or civilian missions to preserve peace, prevent conflict and strengthen international security in ance with the principles of the United Nations Charter. Military missions are carried out by EU forces established with secondments from the member states' armed forces.

The Strategic Compass for Security and Defence – a practical plan of action to strengthen the EU's security and defence by 2030 – notes the increasingly contested nature of space, recognises it as a strategic domain and highlights the need to boost the EU's security and defence in space.

The EDF fosters the competitiveness and innovation capacity of the European defence technological and industrial base by supporting collaborative research and development action.

The EU institutions use public procurement contracts to buy services, works and goods, e.g. studies, training, conference organisation, IT equipment. They award public contracts through calls for tender.

The CSDP is the main policy framework through which Member States can develop a European strategic culture of security and defence, address conflicts and crises together, protect the Union and its citizens, and strengthen international peace and security.

EU defence initiatives These tools are designed to raise the EU's level of ambition; through the Capability Development Plan (CDP), Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD), Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and European Defence Fund (EDF).