The SAFE instrument provides financial assistance to Member States, enabling them to carry out urgent and major public investments in support of the European defence industry in response to the crisis situation resulting from the stark deterioration in the Union’s security context. With that instrument, the Union started to support Member States so that they can place orders rapidly, incentivising the defence industrial sector to invest, in the very short term, in the strengthening of production capacities in order to be able to serve Member States’ needs by 2030. In addition, this Regulation should support the placement of Ukrainian orders with the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base in order to support the cooperation between the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base and the Ukrainian Defence Technological and Industrial Base. Such an exceptionally high demand for a wide range of defence products carries an imminent risk of a severe negative impact on the proper functioning of the internal market. In order to address that risk and in view of the objective of this Regulation, taking into account the specific situation of Ukraine, prioritisation measures at Union level that aim to ensure the availability of the defence products concerned could prove to be indispensable in ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market for defence products and its supply chains. In that respect, the Commission should be able to use, upon a request of a Participating Member State, priority-rated requests for facilitating the supply of defence products to meet the objective of this Regulation.
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