Europe’s security industry should harness its response to natural disasters and terrorist attacks to boost its profile as an international industry, according to a new Commission action plan released yesterday (30 July). The plan envisages a stronger internal market for the security industry harmonising standards and certification procedures for security technologies, and better exploiting the links between civil and defence security research.
New funding schemes are proposed including a ‘pre-commercial procurement’ to validate results stemming from EU security research projects and check on the impact to society of new security technologies at the research stage.
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