Ms Lenka Filipkova:

No. The support under ASAP is meant to support the production capacity of these companies. The production itself and what they use that production for in the defence of member states and the European Union is a different matter. Article 41.2 clearly states that this is excluded under the measures of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. We are not here under the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy; we are here under the framework of the industrial policy of the EU. This was checked and adapted in the ordinary legislative procedures, so it passed by the legal services of the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament and everyone was reassured of the legality of this proposal.