The Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG-DEFIS) is the European Commission's department tasked with strengthening the competitiveness and innovation of the European Defence industry by ensuring the evolution of an able European defence technological and industrial base.

ASAP aims to ramp-up of ammunition production capacity across Europe and with this, help Member States refill their stocks and deliver ammunition to Ukraine by anticipating bottlenecks and shortages in the defence supply chains.

The EDF is the Commission's instrument to support Research and Development in defence.

The European Union needs to strengthen the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) and achieve defence industrial readiness. This is necessary to better protect our citizens and support our partners.

EDIP is a Regulation proposed by the Commission to start implementing concrete measures identified in the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS).

EDIRPA is an EU programme aimed at incentivising cooperation in defence procurement between Member States to jointly coordinate and acquire the most urgent and critical defence product needs, especially those amplified from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

The EU is reinforcing the European defence industry through common procurement.

A blog post by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission.