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Article: DEFENCE : MINISTERS AGREE NEW COMMON FUND FOR DEFENCE RESEARCH.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- November 14, 2006
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Nineteen EU defence ministers have agreed to launch a three-year 54.23 million joint investment research programme (JIP) into technologies to protect their armed forces from threats such as snipers, booby traps and improvised bombs. The situation has changed from 10 November (see Europolitics 3187) in that Austria and Greece have decided to join the programme and Hungary has increased its contribution.
The Research and Technology (R&T) Programme is due to run from 1 January 2007 and will cover 18 specific research and technology items under the headings of collective survivability, individual protection, data analysis, secure wireless communication and mission ...