Mr. Jannik Knauer:

To clarify, joint procurement with non-EU states is possible for those laid out in the regulation. As the Acting Chair rightly pointed out, this includes Ukraine. These are EEA and European Free Trade Association, EFTA, countries, so that is mainly Norway. There are acceding and candidate countries for the EU and countries with whom the EU has signed a security and defence partnership agreement. There is no such agreement with the US and right now there is no work towards such an agreement with the US. Therefore, for the time being there is no possibility for common procurement with the United States.