Article 5 · Regulation (EU) 2026/2387

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Article 5Additional resources#

1.Member States, Union institutions, bodies and agencies, third countries, international organisations, international financial institutions or other third parties may make additional financial or non-financial contributions available to the Programme or to any of its specific activities or objectives referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation. Additional financial contributions shall constitute external assigned revenue within the meaning of Article 21(2), point (a), (d) or (e), or Article 21(5) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509.

2.Resources allocated to Member States under shared management may, at the request of the Member State concerned, be transferred to the Programme subject to the conditions set out in the relevant provisions of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note. The Commission shall implement those resources directly in accordance with Article 62(1), first subparagraph, point (a), of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 or indirectly in accordance with Article 62(1), first subparagraph, point (c), of that Regulation. Those resources shall be used for the benefit of the Member State concerned. Where the Commission has not entered into a legal commitment under direct or indirect management for additional amounts made available to the Programme, the corresponding uncommitted amounts may, at the request of the Member State concerned, be transferred back to the source programmes in accordance with the conditions set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1060.

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background information
means any information necessary for, or useful to, the implementation of the Programme, generated before or outside the framework of an action supported by the Programme and provided to and used for the purposes of that action;
control
means the ability to exercise decisive influence over a legal entity directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities;
defence product
means any defence-related product as referred to in the Annex to Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, as well as works, supplies and services directly related to those products for any and all elements of their life cycle within the meaning of Article 2, point (c), of Directive 2009/81/EC;
emerging and disruptive defence product
means an enhanced or completely new defence product that:
executive management structure
means a body of a legal entity, appointed in accordance with national law and, where applicable, reporting to the chief executive officer of that entity, which is empowered to establish the legal entity’s strategy, objectives and overall direction, and which oversees and monitors the legal entity’s management decision-making;
foreground information
means data, know-how or information generated in the implementation of the Programme, whatever its form or nature;
legal entity
means:
non-associated third-country entity
means:
results
means any tangible or intangible effect of an action supported by the Programme, such as data, know-how or information, whatever its form or nature and whether or not it can be protected, as well as any rights attached to that effect, including intellectual property rights;
small and medium-sized enterprises
(‘SMEs’) means small and medium-sized enterprises as defined in Article 2 of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC;