13:00
Keynote: The (In)visible Infrastructure – How Defence Procurement Rules are Re-Engineering the Industry
- “Third country” structural stress test: decision-making restrictions
- Financing capacity: overcoming procurement infrastructure’s financial requirements
- Performance conditions: how those rules are framed in certain jurisdictions and the various DO’s and Don’ts both for companies and defence administrations
Kevin Munungu
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Senior Associate of Regulatory, Public & Administrative Law, Bird & Bird, Belgium
13:30
“Third Countries” and EU Defence Procurement: The Curious Case of the UK
- Third-country access and treatment in EU defence procurement
- GPA, TCA and transatlantic RDPs
- Access to EU initiatives and the “Buy European” preference:
- PESCO and Military Mobility
- EDF, ASAP and SAFE
- Bilateral and minilateral cooperation
- Industrial cooperation
- Armament programme cooperation (through OCCAR)
- Export licensing
- Military cooperation through JEF
- Key future reference points for the UK-EU relationship: European defence and security
Dr. Luke Butler
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Professor in Law and member of the Public Procurement Research Group, University of Nottingham, Nottingham
14:30
15:00
Protectionism and Geopolitics: Favouring European Suppliers in a Competitive Tender
- Growing use of protectionist legal instruments across Europe
- What do entities need to know about emerging protectionistic European and national laws and case law?
- The case of Finland
Outi Jousi
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Specialist Partner, Head of Public Procurement, Hannes Snellman Attorneys Ltd, Helsinki
16:00
From Assistance to Strategy: The European Peace Facility and the Future of European Defence
- The European Peace facility as a strategic turn in EU Defence Policy
- Ukraine as a paradigmatic case of strategic defence financing
- Institutional and governance implications for European Defence
Cristina Sáenz Pérez
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Senior Lecturer in EU and International Law at the Pontifical University of Comillas, Madrid
17:00
