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In-depth guides to the standards and the compliance work behind them.
A 90-day plan for the smallest defence suppliers: let the tender set your scope, document what you already do, fix the security basics primes check, and keep the system small enough for two people to maintain.
Learn how to qualify, approve and monitor sub-suppliers, flow down requirements through purchase orders, and keep the records an auditor will ask to see under ISO 9001 clause 8.4 and AQAP.
Learn how to run an ISO 9001 Clause 9.3 management review that turns evidence into decisions, with the right inputs, actionable outputs, and a cadence that fits your risks.
The types of ISO 9001 audit, what Stage 1 and Stage 2 each check, how nonconformities are graded and closed, and how to prepare for your first certification.
The EDF consortium rule is usually quoted as three entities from three Member States. It has a second limb about control that the word independent quietly hides, and two exceptions that disapply it entirely.
The European Defence Industry Programme has been in force since December 2025, with its own money, its own rules and its own deadlines. A good deal of published material still writes as though the European Defence Fund were the only instrument.
A classified EDF grant agreement obliges beneficiaries to hold business contingency plans for protecting EU classified information, and to confirm to the granting authority that they exist. It is one of the least written-about obligations in the framework.
Facility and personnel clearances in a classified EDF grant are one rule, not two, and the document that binds them is one many applicants never see referenced. What the timelines actually are, and when they have to start.
The eligibility test that decides whether a European Defence Fund proposal can be assessed at all: where an entity is established, who controls it, and how the derogation actually works.