Article 1 · Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/529

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1.With a view to the implementation of the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy, and taking into account the Union’s Strategy against illicit firearms, small arms and light weapons and their ammunition, entitled ‘Securing Arms, Protecting Citizens’, as well as the EU Strategy against proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Union shall support the implementation of a project of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) entitled ‘Science and Technology Watchtower: Monitoring Innovation for Disarmament’.

2.The project activities to be supported by the Union shall have the following specific objectives:

(a)to provide evidence-based research and analysis to support and inform policy-making and decision-making by proactively monitoring science and technology innovation;

(b)to facilitate knowledge-building and transfer of knowledge on scientific and technological aspects of international security and disarmament;

(c)to bridge relevant communities to enable the transfer of knowledge from a geographically and disciplinarily diverse range of experts and Member States engaged in multilateral disarmament negotiations.

3.The project activities shall include, in particular:

(a)enabling the set-up of a continuous technology horizon-scanning function to ensure that the most relevant science and technology advancements are detected, screened and analysed at early stages of development application;

(b)research into the most relevant trends in science and technology as they pertain to each disarmament area being studied, feeding into multilateral and international processes on emerging technologies and arms control;

(c)increasing dialogue, knowledge-building and transfer of knowledge, including the establishment of a global network of experts that is able to contribute to the sustained impact of the project beyond the funding period.

4.A detailed description of the project referred to in paragraph 1 is set out in the Annex.

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