Recital (7) · Regulation (EU) 2026/2387

(7)Regulation (EU) 2025/2653 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note introduced defence technologies as a fourth area of investment under STEP, alongside biotechnologies, digital technologies and clean technologies. Regulation (EU) 2024/795 provides for the award of a Sovereignty Seal to projects that comply with the minimum quality requirements set out in the programmes listed in that Regulation. The Sovereignty Seal is to be used as a quality label that offers the possibility of receiving funding under other Union programmes, whether total, cumulative or combined, or from Member States. For projects that comply with minimum quality requirements set out in this Regulation to be eligible for a Sovereignty Seal, Regulation (EU) 2024/795 should be amended to include the programme established by this Regulation on the list of eligible programmes.

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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;