2023-10-19 05:28:00
The partnership provides for the maintenance and management of the existing stock of weapons as well as its maintenance, engineering, research and development, rental of weapons or weapon systems and the supply of ammunition.
Defense would contribute 1.333 billion euros, the police for 384 million euros. The supply of ammunition would cost some 900 million euros at the Defense level and 310 million euros at the police level, according to the summary of the project resulting from the Finance Inspectorate report that L’ was able to consult. Echo.
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Enough to multiply in the long term the activities of the FN Herstal munitions factory located in Zutendaal (Limburg), the conjunction of Walloon and Flemish interests pleading in favor of the file.
“This vast project will contribute to strengthening our national strategic autonomy, but also to securing our supply lines,” confirms Ludivine Dedonder, Minister of Defense, praising the multinational dimension of the partnership.
FN Herstal and the government intend to take advantage of an exemption from European rules on public procurement to avoid competition with other companies. Which, according to L’Echo, is not without arousing great skepticism in the Finance Inspectorate for whom “there is no legal basis to justify the award of this public contract, of a very long duration long and whose budgetary impact is very significant, directly with the FN Herstal”.
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