Union funding under this Regulation should only cover the costs necessary for pursuing the objectives of the Programme and the Ukraine Support Instrument and it cannot cover the costs arising from the CFSP. As a consequence, Union funding under the Programme and the Ukraine Support Instrument should not cover the costs of the purchase and of the maintenance of defence products for military or defence purposes, including in the context of establishing, managing and maintaining defence industrial readiness pools. It should be possible however for Union funding under the Programme and the Ukraine Support Instrument to cover the costs incurred in the context of the purchase or of the maintenance of such products where those costs are necessary for strengthening the competitiveness of the EDTIB or the recovery, reconstruction and modernisation of the Ukrainian DTIB, in particular non-recurrent costs.
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